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The Emperor's Blades (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #1)

Brian Staveley

Start date: January 22, 2024

Finish date: February 5, 2024

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Sep 12, 2018 Mary ~Ravager of Tomes~ rated it really liked it

Shelves: 4-star, year-2018

This was the good shit 👀🙌🏽

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Feb 23, 2022 Carrie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, own, multiple-points-of-view

This 3 star may get dropped to 2. Actual rating is somewhere in the middle.

The pov and storyline that I actually cared about was basically non-existent.

I may come back at a later point and write a proper review.

Will I read book 2? I own it so yes, will it be as soon as I originally planed. Nooooo

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Mar 01, 2020 Navi rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, 500-pages-plus, first-of-series, kindle

What a great start to the series! I loved everything about this book - the detailed world-building, the fleshed our characters, the beautiful writing, the female representation, the action scenes, the political intrigue and so much more. I had to force myself to put this book down instead of reading it all in one sitting!

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Dec 30, 2014 Silvana rated it liked it

Shelves: dick-lit, fyeahfantasy, series-and-trilogies-i-completed, military-fantasy

Have you ever read a book that has lots of flaws but you still want to read its sequel? Well, this is one for me.

The writing is good. I like the world building, with all their gods and religious orders and especially the badass gender-blind aerial special ops called the Kettral. Kinda reminds me of Naomi Novik's Temeraire series except that here they used giant birds.

Characters? I liked the first son most of all, Kaden. Valyn, his brother, while he has the most POV chapters, was a dopey cadet t ...more

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Mar 14, 2020 jess rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: book-club-reads

This was a great book. It could’ve been greater with some changes to Adare’s storyline. It was predictable and leaning sexist.

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Jan 27, 2024 Nirkatze rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I dived in to this without having read the blurb (I have a bad habit of that) and had a lot of fun going blind into the information spilled in those paragraphs. Probably too late to recommend it to anyone who might read this review, but well. I enjoyed discovering the identity of the siblings, and running into the events that shake up their lives. I also enjoy a good training sequence, and we get two--one for each brother--along with the bigger mystery of what the heck is up with that prologue? ...more

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Apr 08, 2023 Aquamarine rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Great!

This was really good. Tight storyline, optimal pacing, great build up and interesting characters. The magic is a little bit out there. It seems like, it's meant to be mysterious, so I will give it a pass. All three siblings are good characters and I cared about all their attachments. On to the next one. ...more

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