The Court of Broken Knives
Our rating
Spice: mild. Darkness: extremely dark.
A band of mercenaries is hired to assassinate the emperor of a rotting empire, and one of them, Marith, turns out to be something much worse. The prose is fevered and fragmented, close to poetry. You either love the style or you can't get through it.
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Is The Court of Broken Knives spicy?
A little. There are one or two intimate scenes in The Court of Broken Knives, but they aren't very explicit. We rate it 2 out of 5.
How dark is The Court of Broken Knives?
We rate The Court of Broken Knives 5 out of 5 for darkness (extremely dark). The big content warnings are gore, graphic violence, sexual assault, harm to children. The full list is further down the page.
Do you need to read Empires of Dust in order?
The Court of Broken Knives is book 1 of Empires of Dust, so it's the place to start. The series has 1 book on our list so far and is complete.
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Content warnings
Show 5 content warnings for The Court of Broken Knives
- Gore
- Graphic violence
- Sexual assault
- Harm to children
- War
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Details
- Series
- Empires of Dust, book 1
- Series status
- Complete
- First published
- 2017
- Genre
- Dark Fantasy
