I really enjoyed this one and I d both of the main characters quite a bit. I’m drawn to Waleith and wish there was more of a description of him. His age, hair color and length. Stuff that. I found none except he’s fairly tall but small. I am one that needs full descriptions or it’s hard for me to picture them in my head. I can’t wait to read the next one and find out who this bard will be from the cover. 5 s Jon SvensonAuthor 9 books100

Zaren is a former soldier trying to find his path in life. He's stuck in a small town acting as the muscle in a tavern in case anyone gets out of line. One day he sees someone sitting in the tavern with his sword on the table. Someone else enters the tavern and Zaren gets a bad feeling about him. He takes action.

As the title hints at, the man sitting at the table is a Queen's Blade. And he thinks Zaren could be one as well, with some training. I thought there was a slight discordance between who Zaren was in the tavern versus the nervous nelly he is with the Queen's Blade. It passes quickly, though, and they head to the capital. When they get there they find unusual things are happening.

I'll stop the recap there. The last half of the book is taken up with Zaren honing his magical resistance abilities, while they try to figure out what is happening. I will admit that I didn't figure it out until near the end.

This is a fairly short book and an easy, enjoyable read. I had fun with it and will read book two when it comes out. The editing is very well done. I didn't notice any errors. 5/5*action-adventure fantasy magic ...more1 Stephanie91 1 follower

Not as good as expected

I enjoy most of D.K. Holmberg's books. However, this book doesn't feel as if he wrote it. The writing is stiff. The dialogue is stunted. This book reads more a first try rather than a book published by an experienced author such as Holmberg. I gave Holmberg the benefit of the doubt by giving this three stars simply because I enjoy so many of his other books. I'll start the next book in the series in the hope that the writing improves. The story has great potential. But, if book two is as stilted as this book I will go with my instincts and drop it a hot potato.1 The Man from DelMonte433 8

DNF 65%
Bored, bored, bored! I picked this up off Kindle Unlimited because I confused the author with Charlie Holmberg and I’m cross with myself for getting so far into it before checking. It’s not I haven’t waded through other novels by this author.
Anyway, in brief we have a trainee Blade. The protagonist reminded me of Arthur Dent. Much as in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a lot of the time you could replace his dialogue with “What? & I don’t understand!” and not substantially affect the overall story.
Dull. Reader2

Too wordy and slow, couldn't finish

There's probably a good story buried in here, but I couldn't endure the wordiness. An enormous amount of dialog that was a chore to get through, so I lost interest. I kept flipping forward several pages onto discover conversations were still I progress. There is a lot of telling versus showing. It's not my type of book. If you a lot of detailed conversations, you might enjoy this Graeme117

confused

So I found The Queen’s Blade to be a confusing read. To the point that I had to check several times that it was indeed book one.

Not sure if the confusion stems from The Queen’s Blade being part of a larger world, touched on in series I haven’t read, or if I just missed something. Either way, I struggled to get invested in Zaran’s story. Saying that, I will probably read book 2, in the hopes it explains things for me. Just not right away.
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