by The WandererAuthor: Brian Staveley
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Epic Fantasy
Series: The Unhewn Throne Book One
Pages: 496
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Brian Staveley’s The Emperor’s Blades is a well written debut, but it’s also got a number of character development issues, creativity issues, and a redundant, unbalanced, and derivative plot. Despite these problems, I do see an audience for this series, and that audience is the casual fantasy fan who hasn’t read too deeply into the genre. For the people out there that have read a lot of fantasy, you will find a lot of overly familiar fantasy characterizations and plot devices. When it was all said and done, I felt like I had read a new book that I had read dozens of times before.
