Honestly, writing a review for The Court of Broken Knives feels like one of the hardest possible tasks. There are so many things I want to talk about but at the same time, I don’t want to make this extremely long. Let’s see how it goes.
I can’t start the review in another way than praising how talented is Astrid Knight as a writer and stating the fact that Perception Check is a masterpiece. I could perfectly stop the review here and it would be a good review, but let’s dive into what makes this an outstanding work.
I think this is not a book for everybody, and that will bring mixed reviews to it. Although I love grimdark and I think the genre is marvelous, I can understand that not anybody is going to enjoy it. And A King’s Radiance doubles down into the genre premise.
A world with Avian demi-gods, a cult worshipping them, Elfs whose objective is to get rid of humans, and the classic mix of tropes trying to expand human territories. Add to them really charismatic main characters, political intrigues, and excellent worldbuilding, and voilà: The Last Blade Priest has appeared.
We have the pleasure to be able to unveil the cover of «Where it Rains in Color», a mythological retelling of the culture of the Dogon tribe in Mali, West Africa, by Denise Crittendon.