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Daughter Of The Sword (2012)

by Steve Bein(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

045146477X (ISBN13: 9780451464774)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Roc Trade

series

Fated Blades

review 1: It's a fairly interesting story. My biggest issue was that I don't feel like we went as deep into some of the side-stories' characters as much as was necessary and that the heroine seemed to abandon her disbelief in destiny and magic so quickly and didn't seem to question anything that came her way after that point. Don't get me wrong, I get the point of it, but why make her lack of belief in destiny a kind of a plot point if you don't show her at least struggling with the idea? Otherwise a fairly solid story if a paint-by-number if we knew who the antagonist was from the get-go.
review 2: Unusual combination of contemporary urban fantasy and historical fantasy, but ultimately fails as an integrated story. The characters are two-dimensional, never straying from... more their assigned stereotypes: the lone female cop fighting discrimination and corruption. The drug addled sister. The widowed mother. The wise mysterious sensei. The evil villain. You get the idea. The most interesting parts were the historical stories. But in the end I was not invested in any character and just waited for the stereotypical and unbelievable triumph of the good neophyte over the evil trained killer. There is better urban fantasy - the Jane Yellowrock series by Faith Hunter, the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews, the Harry Dresden series by Jim Butcher, to name just a few. But when you have run through all those and need to fill time while waiting for a better writer to come along, borrow this from your local library and read it. less

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