The Blue Sword
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David Bishop
Rating: 3 out of 5
Hrrm. I’m going to say that this would have been rated higher, if I read it before I was old enough to start thinking about things like “Is hand-wavy magic really a good reason for a grown man to kidnap a teenage girl?” and “Boy, this fictional culture certainly does seem to be drawing heavily on that of the Afghan people, it sure would suck if this turned into a White Savior narrative.”
I can absolutely see why, for a certain subset of people, that this is Their Book™ from childhood. Unfortunately I didn’t read it back then (I somehow missed this and only read The Hero and The Crown).