by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Series: Shadows of the Apt #2 Adrian Tchaikovsky's earlier books aren't quite as good as his later books, but they're still entertaining. This one took me quite a while to get through for a variety of reasons, but in my defence, it's a good 700 pages. This installment brings war to the Lowlands ...
As good as the first one technically, but taking a star off for defining a character by and only their mental illness. Thanks but no thanks.
Nutshell: survivor of genocide uses general belligerence involving all prior protagonists as cover to retrieve numinous object.The number and variety of perspectives increases beyond the point of easy management in this volume. Narrative twists and turns like a twisty turny thing as the plot assim...