This second fantasy novel in the Malazan series continues to be as strangely engrossing as the first - it's not perfect, sometimes a bit predictable and of course other times completely opaque, which I mind less - but it's sharply written, heartfelt and sad, and fully its own thing.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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