Anji Kills a King by Evan LeikamMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
It starts with Exactly What It Says On The Tin, and builds from there. And where it builds is to Anji getting abducted by the Hawk, one of the five assassins tasked with protecting this land, except she's a crabby old lady past her prime physically. Mentally, though...she's gotta stay ahead of her fellow Menagerie members, especially if she's to claim the bounty on Anji all for herself. While this book is, for some reason, hyped as a piece of grimdark fantasy akin to Joe Abercrombie, it does one thing right that Abercrombie's always failed at for me - it's kept me interested in at least one character. Two, technically, but definitely one over the other. For some reason, while Anji is ostensibly the star of the show, Hawk is a far more interesting and dynamic character to me. That said, by the time this book ends, it's pretty clear that Anji is the true lead, and yet she's still part of something bigger for the second book to explore in greater detail...
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