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Prism Knights #2
Bronze
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March 5, 2026
I bought Bronze at TCAF a few years ago.
Bronze is the second book in the Prism Knights. This is a short story of a knight and their running from voices and looping through their past, present and future.
What I can't recall is whether you have to read the stories in order. I don't believe you do.
I enjoyed this idea of a stack of mattresses in the middle of an enchanted forest for a Knight to rest their body down after an awful fight. The book also had white pages with black lettering and black pages with white lettering. Which I believe this was to help differentiate what is written in the past, present and future.
That being said, those are the only things I enjoyed.
When I finished the story, I was left quite flummoxed.
Confused with the ending, I re-read the story to see if I could gain any new details that I might have glossed over the first time.
Sadly, I didn't. I was still left unable to understand the ending.
Knowing that the story jumps from past to present, it was still an incredibly choppy read. It was hard to pick up and put down the book.
The worst of this was the ending.
I felt like we were thrust back and forth through time, with no flow. Any and all new information that we got was thrown at us. It never made the story clearer for the past or the future.
What I did find helped me understand why I left so flummoxed was the Note from the author at the end of the book.
They state that they struggled with mental illness, and to quote, "these stories are very heavy-handed in this imagery."
Imagery is wonderful, it allows us as the reader to invent and create the look and feel of a place and characters in a story. It helps us relate to the characters.
This is, sadly, to Bronze's detriment.
Having the main storyline be written through heavy-handed imagery creates a lot of confusion. Key descriptions of important past plot events are left out entirely for multiple events in the story. What should have been a story loop to tie everything together was a vague, loose timeline.
I found myself unable to put together the puzzle that Bronze was trying to create.
Bronze is the second book in the Prism Knights. This is a short story of a knight and their running from voices and looping through their past, present and future.
What I can't recall is whether you have to read the stories in order. I don't believe you do.
I enjoyed this idea of a stack of mattresses in the middle of an enchanted forest for a Knight to rest their body down after an awful fight. The book also had white pages with black lettering and black pages with white lettering. Which I believe this was to help differentiate what is written in the past, present and future.
That being said, those are the only things I enjoyed.
When I finished the story, I was left quite flummoxed.
Confused with the ending, I re-read the story to see if I could gain any new details that I might have glossed over the first time.
Sadly, I didn't. I was still left unable to understand the ending.
Knowing that the story jumps from past to present, it was still an incredibly choppy read. It was hard to pick up and put down the book.
The worst of this was the ending.
I felt like we were thrust back and forth through time, with no flow. Any and all new information that we got was thrown at us. It never made the story clearer for the past or the future.
What I did find helped me understand why I left so flummoxed was the Note from the author at the end of the book.
They state that they struggled with mental illness, and to quote, "these stories are very heavy-handed in this imagery."
Imagery is wonderful, it allows us as the reader to invent and create the look and feel of a place and characters in a story. It helps us relate to the characters.
This is, sadly, to Bronze's detriment.
Having the main storyline be written through heavy-handed imagery creates a lot of confusion. Key descriptions of important past plot events are left out entirely for multiple events in the story. What should have been a story loop to tie everything together was a vague, loose timeline.
I found myself unable to put together the puzzle that Bronze was trying to create.
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