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A review by cpjeanz
The Justice of Kings by Richard Swan
4.0
Awesome debut, 4.25/5 stars. Great writing, interesting characters, and discourse of themes.
Quick hits:
- The last 110 pages is super fast paced and felt like the best type of anarchy. So much happening on every page.
- The underlying discussion of not only justice, but how people are effected by that justice and how the events of our lives change our perception of justice was awesome.
- Interesting characters with interesting motivations.
- A solid mystery, but more importantly how that mystery plays into the future plot.
- Helena is an interesting POV character and gives us a truly unique view into the world. She plays well off of Vonvault and Bressinger (even Radomir).
- I felt sometimes Helena was a little too immature and petulant. The love story was honestly meh, not bad but just there. None of these are really too often or present and doesn’t take away from the story.
- Complex political landscape with a lot of moving pieces.
Overall, this is a great fantasy debut. I enjoyed my time reading it and would definitely recommend. Due to some of the stuff with Helena bringing me down slightly, and the mystery being resolved earlier than I was expecting, it wasn’t fully 5 stars. But still dope!
P.S. I would caution going into this book with no expectations. It’s getting comparisons to a lot of different things (which happens to every book), but I think going in blind is best. It has intrigue, action, suspense and more. But going in expecting too much of one thing may leave you disappointed.
Quick hits:
- The last 110 pages is super fast paced and felt like the best type of anarchy. So much happening on every page.
- The underlying discussion of not only justice, but how people are effected by that justice and how the events of our lives change our perception of justice was awesome.
- Interesting characters with interesting motivations.
- A solid mystery, but more importantly how that mystery plays into the future plot.
- Helena is an interesting POV character and gives us a truly unique view into the world. She plays well off of Vonvault and Bressinger (even Radomir).
- I felt sometimes Helena was a little too immature and petulant. The love story was honestly meh, not bad but just there. None of these are really too often or present and doesn’t take away from the story.
- Complex political landscape with a lot of moving pieces.
Overall, this is a great fantasy debut. I enjoyed my time reading it and would definitely recommend. Due to some of the stuff with Helena bringing me down slightly, and the mystery being resolved earlier than I was expecting, it wasn’t fully 5 stars. But still dope!
P.S. I would caution going into this book with no expectations. It’s getting comparisons to a lot of different things (which happens to every book), but I think going in blind is best. It has intrigue, action, suspense and more. But going in expecting too much of one thing may leave you disappointed.