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Blade Breaker

The Sunday Times bestselling fantasy series from the global phenomenon behind Tempest and Red Queen

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Blade Breaker

By: Victoria Aveyard
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
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Summary
 ***DON'T MISS VICTORIA AVEYARD'S BRAND-NEW PIRATE FANTASY SERIES TEMPEST***

Imagine The Lord of the Rings if the Fellowship had failed . . . What happens when all the heroes are dead and only the morally grey misfits are left to save the world?
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'World building to rival the likes of George R.R. Martin' GUARDIAN
'A gripping quest fantasy' SAMANTHA SHANNON
'A true fantasy masterpiece' SABAA TAHIR
'A new classic' MARIE LU
'A fantasy fan's dream' ROSEANNE A. BROWN
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CLAIM THE SWORD OR BREAK IT . . .

A former squire fights for hope amid blood and chaos.
A grieving immortal strives to fulfil a broken oath.
An outcast assassin rages against her vicious past.
An old sorceress summons a mighty power.

And a pirate's daughter takes up her father's sword.

Together they must assemble a last-ditch resistance to face a teenage queen and her tyrant consort before they can unleash what waits in the shadows trapped between the worlds they are recklessly breaking open.

From a sprawling cast of knights, witches, monsters, gods, and dragons to an exquisitely slow-burn villain romance, Realm Breaker is an unmissable fantasy adventure from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the global sensation Red Queen - perfect for fans of the huge worlds of Samantha Shannon and the found family quests of V. E. Schwab.
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Read the Sunday Times bestselling REALM BREAKER series in full:

Book 1: REALM BREAKER
Book 2: BLADE BREAKER
Book 3: FATE BREAKER

And don't miss the multimillion-copy bestselling RED QUEEN series:

Book 1: RED QUEEN
Book 2: GLASS SWORD
Book 3: KING'S CAGE
Book 4: WAR STORM
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Critic Reviews

Electrifying... World building to rival the likes of George R.R. Martin
Classic yet groundbreaking, romantic yet edgy, a rollicking adventure that carries you along at a relentless pace. A true fantasy masterpiece. (Sabaa Tahir, #1 New York Times bestselling author)
The world is rich and built with deep care; the characters are complex and flawed; the story is filled with the kind of sweeping scale that fantasy does best. This is a new classic. (Marie Lu, #1 New York Times bestselling author)
Set in a sprawling world of warring empires and hair-raising magic that any reader would want to get lost in... A fantasy fan's dream, injected with Aveyard's trademark action, heart, and razor-sharp characters. (Roseanne A. Brown, New York Times bestselling author)
Featuring corpse armies, otherworldly beasts, sorcerers and the kind of epic peril you'd find in a Tolkien novel, Blade Breaker is an ambitious sequel with stellar world building. Pure fantasy heaven.
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The bones of this story, whilst somewhat formulaic, are quite good. The world whilst new and exciting, carried too many distractions such as echoes of the modern Western world’s pseudo woke ideals. The author should look to Sarah J. Maas when writing as a woman expressing female strength without overtly referring to how men would be treated, or men’s foibles, or the need to beat men where men are clearly superior. (I.e. the biggest strongest human woman against the biggest strongest human man, well it is a fantasy book) The Author should look to Queen Elisabeth on how to to show and demonstrate the strength and competence that is neither a caveat nor requiring a comparative analysis for validation. This man v woman insecurity in one insecure character could be understood and easily part of the character’s arc. However, that insecurity being written into most of the female characters and in the overt relegation/nerfing of male characters speaks to the insecurity and misandry of the author. The writing goes so far as to highlight the foibles of men, but in a need to be equal in all things, will detail a woman with the same foibles, but in the case of the woman those foibles would be embraced as a sense of empowerment. Please constrain the modern day overt social dilemma to a single character or culture, and get it out of the way as you tell a good story in a world of your making in which the women are powerful and in places of power because they are, and not as part of some gender war.

Misandry Laced Epic Fantasy

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