A review by mapscitiesandsongs
The Short Knife by Elen Caldecott

Did not finish book. Stopped at 34%.

I‘ve had this book on my tbr for literal years because I love everything about this time period. Sadly I had to throw in the towel pretty early on. The main reason why is that I didn’t like a single character which is important to me in a book. I also dreaded picking the book back up and I am not willing to read myself into a reading slump again. Another thing that made me decide to drop it is the constant threat of sexual violence. I get it, it‘s due to the time period and it‘s realistic. It was just a bit too much for me personally to have it constantly hanging over the characters head. All in all this is absolutely not a bad book and I can see why people like this. It just wasn‘t for me.