Title: Blackheart Knights
Author: Laure Eve
Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books
Release Date: 27th April 2021
Blurb from Goodreads:
Power always wins.
Imagine Camelot but in Gotham: a city
where knights are the celebrities of the day, riding on motorbikes
instead of horses and competing in televised fights for fame and
money.
Imagine a city where a young, magic-touched bastard
astonishes everyone by becoming king - albeit with extreme reluctance
- and a girl with a secret past trains to become a knight for the
sole purpose of vengeance.
Imagine a city where magic is
illegal but everywhere, in its underground bars, its back-alley
soothsayers - and in the people who have to hide what they are for
fear of being tattooed and persecuted.
Imagine a city
where electricity is money, power the only game worth playing, and
violence the most fervently worshipped religion.
Welcome
to a dark, chaotic, alluring place with a tumultuous history, where
dreams come true if you want them hard enough - and are prepared to
do some very, very bad things to get them . . .
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My Review:
*I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Thanks to Jo Fletcher Books*
It’s London, but
not as we know it.
This is a London
that has knights that ride on motorbikes and fight in arenas to end
disputes.
This London has
citizens with illegal magic and a reluctant young king.
This is a London
with a young woman willing to do anything to become a knight in order
to get revenge.
Welcome to the
London of the Blackheart Knights.
Going into this
novel, I wasn’t sure how much I would enjoy it as I had mixed
feelings about another book I’ve read by the same author. However,
I liked the premise and so decided to give it a chance.
Art and Red were
both interesting protagonists who were similar in some ways but also
very different. I liked finding out more about them, but I’m left
feeling that I still don’t know Art very well, despite half the
book being about him. I also don’t feel that I fully connected with
either of them.
The setting was
interesting but there could have been more focus on world-building as
I’m left with a lot of questions about the world of Blackheart
Knights. For
example, I would have liked a bit more detail about how Art ruled
day-to-day and how the bikes worked.
I
liked the idea of knights on motorbikes going around fighting as
representatives for other people, and I thought the magic was
interesting.
The
theme of power was interesting, as was seeing how far Red was willing
to go to get her revenge.
The
plot was mixed for me. I did
enjoy it, but I also got a
bit bored once or twice towards the end of the book. There were some
things I saw coming, but also some that I didn’t.
It
took a while for me to get into the book, which I think was mostly to
do with the writing style, which was not one of my favourites.
I
really liked the premise for the novel, but for me, it didn’t quite
live up to its potential. However, I can see a lot of other people
loving
this.
Overall,
this was an enjoyable read.
