Crossed Blades [Dramatized Adaptation]

This was an OK third instalment of the Fallen Blade series. A solid fantasy tale. Small in scale but interesting enough. A mix of intrigue and action with some fun magic and fantasy creatures thrown into the mix. The series is a bit episodic in set-up. In this instalment Aral ran into an old friend......more

For two books now we've been following Aral as he struggles to figure out who he is and what he wants to become. One of the central problems of addiction is using it to hide from unpleasant truths, in Arals case as the book begins its the truth that he sort of wants to die after the agony of watchin......more

Picked up since the second, good to see.......more

Every time I finish a Fallen Blade book, I feel a little torn. On the one hand, I clearly enjoyed it. I stayed up until one in the morning to finish Crossed Blades because I simply couldn't put it down. On the other hand, I'm not convinced they're good books. Crossed Blades is particularly full of s......more

Crossed Blades, the third installment of the Fallen Blade series, takes us once again to our Tien, where Aral and Triss, our dynamic duo, are once again forced into a series of events far outside their abilities to control. It's been a year since the Durkoth incident, where a young Blade had stolen......more