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The Brazen Blade Kindle Edition

by Billy Wong (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
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Rousing fantasy adventure with a butt-kicking heroine.

When her sickly brother is unable to attend military school as planned, young noblewoman Kathryn goes in his place. She impresses instructors and peers alike with her sword skills, and gains notoriety among them along with the nickname Kath the Blade. When one of her new friends is targeted by mysterious assassins and flees the school, she decides to follow in order to protect him. But even confident Kath is little prepared for the monsters, mercenaries, assassins, and scheming masterminds who stand in their way.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0172VJZT6
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (October 23, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 23, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2050 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 229 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings

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Billy Wong

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Billy Wong is an avid fan of heroic fantasy, with a special love for strong female warriors. He draws inspiration from the epic legends of old, and is on a quest to bring over the top deeds and larger than life heroes back to prominence in today's literary world.

Billy lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn and as one can see from the picture, works as a ninja.

A Chinese ninja.

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Brian B
3.0 out of 5 stars Had potential
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2016
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I was really loving the story up until Kathryn decides to leave the school to help Zack. Her decision just didn't make sense to me. To risk her place at a prestigious military school and possibly her own life to protect someone she hardly knew and that may or may not have some one hunting him. As the story continues I disliked Zack more and more, as he appeared to be a useless idiot that whines a lot. I like strong heroine characters too but SMART and strong heroines are even better.
The fight scenes were good with a good mix swordplay and martial arts. Kath is definitely a larger-than-life character but even so I found it hard to swallow her being able to survive some of her more grievous wounds. In one fight, she is kicked in the stomach where she had previously been sliced open with a sword. And yet, she fights on like nothing happened. In reality, the kick should have reopened the wound and caused excruciating pain. Likewise, she is impaled multiple times and yet never bleeds to death or ruptures an organ. Now, I could of swallowed of it if she had a rapid healing gift or if someone else was able to heal her, but no, she apparently just needs some rest to recover.
Speaking of recovery. I noticed several instances where a combatant instantly recovered from a hit that should of left them disoriented at the very least.
I would really forward to the monster hunting in later books but I dislike Zack enough to be wary.
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Hotcha
5.0 out of 5 stars The Brazen Blade
Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2016
I won this ARC and agreed to give it an honest review and YA should love it although scenes in the story seemed unreal. Kathryn decided to go to the Iron Sword Military School when her sickly brother was unable to attend. She had practiced with servants with her swords and was quite good at it. Once her carriage dropped her off, she had a nervous desire to turn around and go back home, but she forced herself to enter the double doors then stood in line to await her uniform. She befriended a boy named Zach as well as Leroy, the overconfident boy and decided she liked him regardless of the tales of his feats that sounded untrue. She was the only female in the school and knew she had to work harder than the boys. Once attempts on Zach's life began, Zach decided to go home and she sneaked out after him unknowing that monsters, mercenaries, and assassins schemed against them.
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Angie Lenkevich
4.0 out of 5 stars Another great read from Billy Wong
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2016
Book exchanged for an honest review~

Kathryn is going to Iron Sword School to take her brother's place and train in the art of fighting. Kathryn makes friends while finding some aspects of school boring and uninteresting partly because she's studied some of them. Kathryn earns a nickname Kath from among her friends which helps her fit in better. When Kath's fellow classmate Zack is kidnapped from and rescues him from harm. Zack becomes paranoid about his safety deciding to leave school before he's kidnapped again. Who wants to hurt Zack? Will Kath let Zack go off alone? Your answers await you in The Brazen Blade.

Billy Wong is my favorite author for writing strong female characters. His Iron Flower Series is among my favorite series. I can't say enough good things about Billy Wong and his female characters. I look forward to my next adventure with this author.
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Russ Stebbins
2.0 out of 5 stars Full of surprises but not in a good way.
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2016
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The story arc kinda makes sense, young girl has to prove herself, has a series of adventures and is pretty competent at the end of the book. Its the series of adventures and how the arise that make absolutely no sense. I can envision the plot outline but when it comes to getting the character from plot point A to plot point B the path chosen is completely out of sync with the backstory we learned in plot point A. wash and repeat. The story is supposed to inform the protagonists actions, relying on what we have learned to explain why the next action makes sense. But who needs those pesky writing conventions.
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Hub
1.0 out of 5 stars waay to primitive
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2016
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At first the story seems interesting, but really instead of any plot development, we just follow a pretty random string of loosely tied events. Author just seems to rush forward from fight to fight as soon as he can, skipping such detail like character development, the plot or logic. In many points of the book you see some decision point and characters discussing it (or thinking about it) and deciding hey "yea lets do this thing thats good idea" and what they do is the dumbest things they could have done. (Kinda hard to explain otherwise without any spoilers)

The fights and recovery from wounds is like taken from computer RPG game. It seems you can survive any kind of wounds as long you have some "hit points" remaining. And you can easily identify "great" warriors not by any special skill, but by the amount of wounds they survive.
Worst thing is, in some cases you can get away with over-powerful resistant character, by giving some background or special abilities to them. But here is absolutely nothing.
It literally looks like the author has based this on some MORPG/RPG game, where we can have level 80 warrior with 10000 hitpoints who can "tank 10 gut wounds", while other level 1 die from stepping on his toes."

There is no depth or any real development to characters. Also the one character that everyone must help because hes so weak and frail is so extremely annoying that sooner or later you begin to really really hate him.
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PD
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2015
An enjoyable fantasy novel with lots of action! It's true that it could be more polished, but overall it was a fun read!

**I received a free copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.**
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xanaphia
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting fantasy world with a badass female lead.
Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2018
I love, love, love strong female protagonists, and this book delivers in spades. I love Kathryn, and how she sticks by her friends, regardless of the personal cost. Even when it comes to making hard decisions, Kathryn doesn't shy away from doing what she thinks is right.

The military academy is a cool setting, and I wish we could have spent more time there. Still, the world is living and breathing, and well developed, with cultures and customs. The fight scenes are great, fast-paced and well-crafted. Can't wait to check out the rest of his books.
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MMH
4.0 out of 5 stars Energetic Fantasy
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 7, 2018
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The Brazen Blade is an energetic fantasy adventure, which combines elements of the much loved ‘school story’ genre of children’s and YA literature with an equally traditional ‘sword and sorcery’ epic.

Much of the plot involves rather more sword than sorcery, though there’s dangerous encounters with several fantastic creatures: protagonist Kath is a plucky, skilled swordswoman at a prestigious military academy when the story begins. She’s being reluctantly steered toward a military career when the failed kidnapping of a classmate derails her plans for experience and travel, as well as the more prosaic hopes of her instructors.

The Brazen Blade moves at a whip-crack pace, with many lively set-pieces and a highly visual writing style, which places the reader in the midst of events easily. This leaves little time for much interior life for its characters, whose world-view is firmly bound by gender and class conventions that appear inspired by an unspecified period of European history.

Kath, unsurprisingly, resists the expected roles for a high-born young woman within the novel’s feudal system, while her classmates fall into familiar types: the bully, the coward, the cheat. Each gets a moment to stray, just a little, out of his prescribed archetype as The Brazen Blade progresses, emphasising the value of self-sacrifice and familial pride.

Though the primary antagonist isn’t introduced until more than half-way through the story, The Brazen Blade contains enough peril along the way to compensate and proves an entertaining addition to the genre.
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