But there are moments of violence and darkness. I found a lot of the book funny, the last third in particular. The meticulous character building that preceded it all came together and made this chapter hilarious.
This was the true master stroke of the novel.
One of them knows exactly what is going on (magic 😏), one suspects, the other is completely clueless. After an entire book of separate POV chapters, suddenly we have a chapter where the main POV characters intertwine. My favourite scene was the fencing contest. The interweaving of stories was so well done as is the characterisation and political intrigue. I missed so much on my first read-through that quite a lot surprised me. And so, a re-read had to happen first… and that’s what I’ve just done!Īnd yeah, what a great book! And how amazing to read it whilst in the realm of the fully awake! By the end, I knew it was a great book, but the details slipped away, which was entirely circumstance rather than the book.Īs the series gained MASSIVE popularity in the years that followed, I knew that I wanted to continue the series – but alas, what I had read hadn’t quite stayed with me. I think it took over a year to get through (a combination of reading – and then re-reading the same pages because I couldn’t remember where I was, followed by weeks of reading nothing because I was so exhausted). I would open the pages only to set it down immediately. My oldest son didn’t like to go to sleep and my youngest had night terrors almost every night.īeing able to read The Blade Itself became a fantasy in its own right. I first read this for the first time in 2014 – about a year after I had my second baby.
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