Blade Breaker mistakes every ward having their own battle cry for actual world-building. Other races and cultures aren’t any better. Readers learn that there are elves on the planet who came from a different dimension and we literally have two narrators from that race and culture, but I know practically nothing about how the elves, as a whole, live. The world Corayne and The Gang are trying to save is literally called “Allward,” because it is made up of all the wards on their planet-I am not making this up. One of my biggest gripes of Blade Breaker is the practically non-existent world-building. Though I enjoyed parts of Blade Breaker surrounding the villains, Taristan and Eridan, and the development between Companions Sorasa and Dom’s, I absolutely struggled to get through Blade Breaker or even to write this review because I had so many feelings of upset tied to this novel. What’s worse is that this writing style renders everything as rather basic and simplistic or unintentionally humorous.

The “telling” versus “showing” is practically unbearable, sapping out all of the tension in everything, even including scenes that should be high stakes. Though I enjoyed its predecessor, Realm Breaker, I found that the problems that occasionally plagued the first novel ran egregiously rampant in this sequel. Something deadly waits in the shadows something that might consume the world before there's any hope for victory.īlade Breaker is a novel that’s hard for me to review because I found it to be so disappointing and I want my review to be constructive, despite those emotions. But perilous lands await her and the companions, and they face assassins, otherworldly beasts, and tempestuous seas all as they rally a divided Ward to fight behind them.īut Taristan has unleashed an evil far more wicked than his corpse armies. Queen Erida's army marches across Allward with her consort, Taristan, right beside them, opening more portals into nightmarish worlds, razing kingdoms to the ground.Ĭorayne has no choice but to assemble an army of her own if she's to save the realm as she knows it.

The fate of the world rests on a blade's edge.įighting beside her band of unlikely companions, Corayne is learning to embrace her ancient lineage and wield her father's powerful sword.īut while she successfully closed one of the Spindles, her journey is far from over. Published by HarperTeen on June 28th 2022īuy on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, The Book Depository Blade Breaker (Realm Breaker, #2) by Victoria Aveyard

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