So, book 2 of a YA fantasy horse series. Warning: there is a cliffhanger ahead. The fact that this leads directly into book 3 explains a few things, because on its own the plot is a mess. Even as the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Platt’s book is really about the relationship between Britain and China before the Opium War, and shows why a conflict was unexpected, almost right up to when it did happen. The two had a stable trading relationship for about two[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The final Tomoe Gozen novel is much more cohesive as a novel than the first two. But it is broken into three parts, and they are somewhat independent. A sad repeat from the second book is that there’s an ad[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the first book in Ben Bova’s “Grand Tour” series—chronologically at least. I get the idea it was one of the later ones written, but I haven’t looked deeply into that. Each one was written about a particular location[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Osprey’s book on the northwest of British India covers from the appointment of Lord Auckland as Governor-General of India, and goes to the end of British India. In general, this is your usual good Osprey treatment of the subject, with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a scholarly look at American politics from roughly 1818 to 1832. Maybe a bit too scholarly for me. Many parts of the book are very finely argued, and I tended to lose track of what the argument was.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The third Ancillary book is a direct follow on to Ancillary Sword, picking up very shortly after the that one. The start re-introduces everything going on, which I needed. However, while much more of a piece with the second book[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For a long time, waterways were the only meaningful passages from one place to another. Roads might do in a pinch, but water was much faster and easier. Canals have been used throughout history to get this fact to work[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a bit complicated. First, at a hundred pages (plus an appendix that really is part of the novel) this is pretty much in novella territory. Really though, it’s a jumble of short stories with the same inciting event.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second prequel novella is sadly the last so far. It’s obvious there should be a third story, but after nine years, all we have is an independent side story, so I am worried that we will never get the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…