Realm Breaker was my first time reading a book written by Victoria Aveyard. And only Corayne can stop him.Īlongside an unlikely group of reluctant allies, Corayne finds herself on a desperate journey to complete an impossible task, with untold magic singing in her blood and the fate of the world on her shoulders. With poison in his heart and a stolen sword in his hand, he'll break the realm itself to claim it. Even Corayne an-Amarat can feel it, tucked away in her small town at the edge of the sea.įate knocks on her door, in the form of a mythical immortal and a lethal assassin, who tell Corayne that she is the last of an ancient lineage-with the power to save the world from destruction.īecause a man who would burn kingdoms to the ground is raising an army unlike any seen before, bent on uprooting the foundations of the world. Realm Breaker (Realm Breaker, #1) by Victoria Aveyardīuy on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, The Book DepositoryĪ strange darkness is growing in the Ward.
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Still suffers from the "LOOK! HERE'S THE IMPORTANT CLUE!" syndrome I mentioned in a previous review. The reference back to a previous story is pretty neat - it added a lot to the story that wouldn't have been there otherwise. If the reader uses the Internet to look up something that the writer draws attention to in a rather obvious way, it's fairly easy to break the killer's alibi. 6/10ġ3) The Gentleman Thief: Not too bad, after the last two, although there's a MAJOR error in the "impossible murder" execution that the author didn't realize, and never addressed, which punctures things a bit.Ģ0) The Undying Butterflies: Not a bad story. Plus, it gets a point for the Columbo reference. 6.5/10ġ2) House of Wax: Why couldn't TokyoPop put the crime scene map somewhere other than right in the middle (or was it near the end) of the volume, WITHOUT page numbers? It led me to look at something I shouldn't have! Even then, though, both major clues and "locked room" weren't that well executed, though the solution to the latter wasn't bad at all. No spoilers here, which tells you a bit about my regard for this one. The "locked room" was disappointing, and the atmosphere never really got that charged, although the unusual point of view that they used for a good deal of this tale was interesting. I suppose the key clue was KINDA fair, though I didn't like that you had to basically squint to figure it out. Along the way, he reveals a truth that is more than skin deep-the power of food to bring the kin of the enslaved and their former slaveholders to the table, where they can discover the real America together. As he takes us through his ancestral culinary history, Twitty suggests that healing may come from embracing the discomfort of the South's past. 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