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Redemption’s Blade is a great fantasy novel that manages to smoothly transit between satire and pathos, subverting genre tropes to comic effect while developing anguished characters that find themselves lost in life.
The story begins when the great war for the fate of the world has already ended: the people have united and defeated the Dark Lord, here called the Kinslayer. It’s time to rebuild and move on, and the hero Celestaine, who delivered the final blow on the Enemy, is preparing to set on a new quest: she wants to get hold of a magical artifact capable of restoring the wings of an elven-like race broken by the Kinslayer.
After all, he may have been defeated and [...]