Review: A Dance of Cloaks
So I went to the library for the first time in forever to borrow a book I needed for uni, needless to say, I walked out with an extra three. One of those three, was A Dance of Cloaks by David Dalglish. At first, I was all hell yeah a story about a badass assassin. But as the story went on, I was kind of disappointed
First of all, the so-called badass assassin was actually a thirteen year old boy – he had some mad skills, but I just think he needed to be older, like seventeen or something. The reader isn’t going to fall in love or have the hots for a thirteen year old kid. That was downfall number one. Downfall number two: this badass assassin changed his ways and converted to being a religious little shit who was all “I don’t want to follow in my father’s footsteps, I don’t want to be a badass assassin, I want to pray”.
Downfall number three: he didn’t have a badass name, which is okay I guess seeing as this thirteen year old kid wasn’t actually a badass (Aaron is not a cool name).
If his dad was younger, I’d enjoy the story a lot more because he is the fucking badass and I wish the story stayed with badass assassins. Don’t get me wrong, the story had some good elements, it just wasn’t to my style. Like, I actually liked the idea of the thief guilds – again, I wish the badass assassins had a badass guild name to go with it (Spider isn’t very cool; pick a more badass animal please).
It sounded promising on the blurb I guess, but unfortunately, I was kind of disappointed in how it turned out. The writing was pretty good though, there were some good descriptions going on there, especially during the fighting and combat scenes where people died.
I don’t think I will continue this series – sorry y’all.
