A review by warmreapertea
By Force Alone by Lavie Tidhar

3.0

I don't have any particular interest in the Arthurian legends, but I thought I might give this a try because the cover looked absolutely stunning and the blurb mentioned something about "Arthurian legend but make it a gang war," which piqued my interest. The writing was way cruder and casual than I expected it to be, and I'm still a bit torn on whether I like the way certain things were handled, but honestly there's an interesting and refreshing edge to it. I feel like as the story went on, it started making less and less sense; throwing in new characters and mixing reality with myth but never describing what exactly was happening. The ending was good though, but god the part before it, what was happening? Not sure whether this chaotic style was a nice switch-up of the standard fantasy myth-rewriting, or simply rubbish. Anyhow, I enjoyed it.