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T. Kingfisher
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Context: I'm quite new to T. Kingfisher's books! I've just finished Swordheart and thought I was ready to finally just dive into this ARC....
... And then within the first few pages I'm seeing a reference to a paladin that feels very call-back-y and sure enough, after some quick digging I'm finding out that Learned Edmund was one of four main characters of the Clockwork Boys.
I quite enjoyed Swordheart despite not being familiar with this world at all, and I didn't feel that my experience was at all diminished by it. For those who have completed Daggerbound, do you feel that that would still hold true for this novel?
I fully planned on diving into the Paladin and Clocktaur War series after Daggerbound anyways, but would it be better to read those first instead? Thanks!
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Oh I like the Dervish already. His personality is exactly as I expected. I think him and Halla would get along very well.
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Daggerbound
T. Kingfisher
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Weavingshaw was an enjoyable read. I certainly enjoyed its plot and atmosphere.
My main critiques are a slight bit of repetitiveness here and there, mainly at the start of the book, but also a lack of world building.
And I don’t mean the world building in regards to the importance of the plot, lore wise and all, that was done well in my opinion. I mean world building in terms of things like locations, years, months, the distance and relationships between things.
We hear mentions of oceans and islands, kingdoms, wars, great passings of time, and mountains, but nothing really solidified their existence to me. Like yes, these things certainly exist and hold importance, but they only ever seemed material when they were mentioned, then ceased most relevance when not brought up.
At any other moment in the story, the outer reaches of the world and the passing of time just felt too vague for their level of importance to the story. I do see the necessity of vagueness for some places (like two locations total), but otherwise felt we could’ve gotten some more text on past events, year specifications, the mention of months, and more details of the world around us.
This is certainly a book that would have greatly benefited from having a map on one of the starting pages