Sometimes these switches help to advance plot and they’re often more interesting than Sarah’s part of the story Katie’s PoV scenes are used to advance the romance. Sarah is the first-person PoV, but we occasionally see third-person via Katie, or a dragon (in human form) and a witch who consider the Northwest their territory, the people in it as chattel. You don’t even really know what the “story” is until well past page 100.īLACK BLADE BLUES is a mixed bag with some fun elements, but ends up being confusing. Neither can they successfully hide awkward progression. Pitts probably thinks that the short chapters would solve the pace problems and choppy flow. This is an urban fantasy novel, and UF is generally shorter, so a writer can’t dilly dally with set-up and has got to start out at a dead run. Then everything changes.īLACK BLADE BLUES starts off slow. That is, until a movie extra claims he’s a dwarf and that the black-bladed sword Sarah bought at an auction is magic.
The story takes places in modern-day Seattle, and even though Sarah likes fighting in skirmishes at the occasional Ren Fair, she’s never believed that magic really exists. Pitts is your typical urban fantasy novel with some gettin-together by the main characters, the heroine learning that magic really exists, and swords–don’t forget the swords. BLACK BLADE BLUES ( Amazon) (no, I can’t believe he named it that, either) by J.A. She’s got a job she loves (blacksmithing props for a local B movie director), beautiful girlfriend who loves her (Katie), and a chosen family in her Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) reenactor friends–so why does everything still seem to go wrong?īut none of those problems are nearly as bad as the ones that revolve around her ownership of a black-bladed sword: these more immediate problems involve dwarves, Old Norse gods, and dragons. Her personal demons of doubt and self-identity keep her from being happy with her life, even though at first it appears to be going well. Sarah Beuhall is pretty sure she needs therapy.
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