in one word: tropey

Mini-Review:

3.5 Stars for Narration by Andrew Tell (I can't blame him for not being excited about reading this book.)
3 Stars for Concepts
-2 Stars Sloppy Writing/Plot

I wasn't planning on writing a review for this book because I didn't take it all that seriously. In fact, for 2/3 of the story, I figured I would be nice, rate it 3 stars and forget about it. The writing is rough but there were a couple of cool ideas and character based scenes. Tell did a good job of narrating the story, and I figured I just hit a dud on my attempt to try new authors/books that I had bought on sale.

There's nothing graphic in this book but there are several dark/harsh scenes. At first, I just shrugged it off as poor gimmick writing. Later, I was fed up and just felt disgusted. Sorry, book, you had my complete & undivided attention. That gained you one star.

- Odd Narrative Changes
- Uneven Pacing
- Unnecessary Brutal Acts (Rape/Torture of Only Women) aka Gimmicky Grim-dark Hijinx
- Poorly Executed/Planned Plot/Characters/Setting

I need to stop buying audiobooks just because it "might" be a good story. Geez.

I picked this one up because I was looking for another book like the Kel Kade ones. I should have just stopped listening to this one. I didn't really feel any connection to anything about the story or the characters. I didn't really like the writing lots of telling. The when the writing wasn't from a woman's point of view then they were treated like objects. Now that I'm done I don't want to read on at all.

Oriental themed fantasy. The Kingdom split into the Three Kingdoms many years ago, many believe it was caused by the nightblades, secret assassin/ninja warriors with more skills than the average soldier.
A splinter group calling themselves the dayblades thought they had seen the last of them.
Into this world come three children, some with the nightblades power.

They face danger and hardship from the beginning, learning things about themselves as they are brought up in different and opposing environments.

This is a good book, showing how actions that seem good can have extreme consequences. As the main characters are brought up in different factions, it lends an air of ambiguity to what they are taught. Neither side is necessarily bad, but work from the perspective they have been given.

6 paragraphs in and you have read the word ''sense'' 6 times, put the book down, stop hoping and move on like I have.