A review by iris_sanguinea
Caine Black Knife by Matthew Woodring Stover
adventurous
dark
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Violence, Gore, and Cursing
Moderate: Torture
Minor: Colonisation, Sexual violence, Misogyny, and Genocide
Caine's origin story is the brutal near-genocide of another species; one wsw female character's magic and strength is tied to her being ~untouched~ by men, and she loses it off-screen via sexual violence; ; fantasy racism; colonization/colonialism in the treatment of Overworld by the companies who run Earth, classism in the Earth dystopia