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@ Lyn Alden
2025-05-23 00:56:55
I finished Anji Kills a King.
I'd give it a 6.5/10. Solid, but not remarkable.
The non-spoiler premise is that Anji indeed kills a king on page one (she's a laundry servant in the castle, rather than a pro assassin), and escapes into the night. However, a famed bounty hunter called "the Hawk" catches her later that week, and is bringing her back as a captive to the capital to be publicly tortured to death for regicide. That all happens at the start.
The story then follows this duo and their journey. The Hawk is a stoic experienced bounty hunter of legend, while Anji is trying to find angles to escape. And there are other nastier bounty hunters after Anji's massive regicide bounty.
The worldbuilding is kind of mediocre in terms of social structures, creatures, magic, religions, etc. The character work is decent, but not extraordinary. The action scenes are okay.
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