A review by nordicreads
The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands

5.0

Absolutely phenomenal debut! Intense, gripping and yet knows how to wrench your heart out. Written cleverly so easy to enjoy even for older readers. There are certain scenes where the book doesn't really hold back on pain, torture, suffering, or murder which had me going, "are we sure this book shouldn't be listed as for 'teens' instead of '9-12'?" But for me personally it was refreshing to read something that didn't skirt around the topics for once. Thoroughly enjoyable.