Pitts, J. A. -- Black Blade Blues [e-book purchase]
A blacksmith SCA chick discovers Siegfried's dragon-slaying sword at a
yard sale. Or somewhere. I have serious problems with this fantasy:
all of the fantasy elements are unconvincing. Dwarves, magic swords,
runes, dragons, a blatantly-lanterned Odin in a dumpster -- the
protagonist and everybody else reacts to them with exactly the wrong
amount of amazement and wonder. Thus, so do I. Worse: all of the
mundane elements (the protagonist's job, her other job, her love
life, her friends) are all terrific -- the author gets that stuff
rock-solid. It was just, every time I got back to the dragon-slaying
parts, I fell out of the book again. Frustrating.
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