It's spring in Seattle. Our two days of heat wave have come and gone, the sky stays bright until well past 9pm, spiders are literally EVERYWHERE, and oh yeah, hello extremely invasive Blackberry bushes, you grew 10 feet in a single afternoon? Well done, champ! Now, let's destroy you, because you stink.I love blackberries as much as the next person but why such a delicious fruit needs such an incredibly awfully thorny vine to grow on is beyond me. Blackberry bramble is the worst. It's super sharp and needle-like. Most gloves do NOTHING. And good luck trying to trim it close to the root without getting arm-deep in the brush and losing half your skin to a stupid bush.I looked up more expensive kevlar-lined gloves and honestly wasn't sure I wanted to drop north of $50 on a set of work gloves that had a single purpose, so I gave these a try from Game of Thorns (love that name).I have large hands and usually take an XL/XXL glove, so I was a little apprehensive buying a set of L gloves, but they fit really well and since I'm only using them when dealing with the blackberry bushes around my property and not regular yard maintenance, it's perfectly fine. What I like is how long these gloves are, they reach almost all the way to my elbows.Well, I put them to the test, and wrapped my hand around a branch of blackberry bramble and - to my surprise - not a single thorn impaled my hand. I dared reach into the bush to clip a branch with my super heavy duty sheers and didn't suffer a single injury below the elbow. For the price, these gloves do a really good job. Will they stop every thorn from getting through, especially as I become overconfident wearing them? Time will tell - maybe one will find a weak spot - but so far I'm feeling pretty good about them. Before, I'd carefully remove the cut branches using one of those long picker-upper tools because no glove I owned could withstand the thorns, but now I can just grab them and toss them aside!