Maybe this won’t be the normal Arthurian tale. Actually, a great strength of this book is that it makes you believe that maybe things will work out. You can’t help but love them from the start, even as you know they’re heading towards tragedy. It’s also helped by the fact that the characters are all great. You don’t know - and you won’t know for a long while - how the two stories link together (although you may have guesses, given who the characters are supposed to be), but the story does an excellent job of keeping you engaged, by giving you a world that you can all but feel. It’s the kind of book you just have to immerse yourself in and let it carry you to its conclusion.īecause that’s probably the best thing about this book, the way it draws you in and keeps you hooked. Both of which are steadily converging on a single point, although for a long time it’s not clear just what that is. The book follows two different timelines: Art, years in the past, who is about to be named king, and Red, just a few months before the present day. You know those books where the concept alone is just immaculate, but then you open them and everything else about them is immaculate too? This was one of those for me.
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Rep: sapphic mc, bi, gay & nonbinary side characters CWs: violence Galley provided by publisher Blackheart Knights is a book that I’ve been highly anticipating ever since I heard about it. ― Jay Kristoff, No.1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author. "Arthurian legend meets urban fantasy in a brilliant, bloody wild ride" ― Krystal Sutherland, author of Our Chemical Hearts "The boldest, smartest, most adventurous fantasy I've read in ages - and it's really f**ing fun" ― Samantha Shannon, author of The Bone Season and The Priory of the Orange Tree "A riveting tragedy of blood and desire - and the coolest thing you'll read this year" Welcome to a dark, chaotic, alluring place with a tumultuous history, where dreams come true if you want them hard enough - and are prepared to do some very, very bad things to get them. Imagine a city where electricity is money, power the only game worth playing, and violence the most fervently worshipped religion.
Imagine a city where magic is illegal but everywhere, in its underground bars, its back-alley soothsayers - and in the people who have to hide what they are for fear of being tattooed and persecuted.
Imagine a city where a young, magic-touched bastard astonishes everyone by becoming king - albeit with extreme reluctance - and a girl with a secret past trains to become a knight for the sole purpose of vengeance. Imagine Camelot but in Gotham: a city where knights are the celebrities of the day, riding on motorbikes instead of horses and competing in televised fights for fame and money. Imagine a city where a young, magic-touched bastard astonishes everyone by becoming king - albeit with extreme reluctance - and a girl with a secret past trains to become a knight f Power always wins.
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