Second book in Abraham’s Dagger and Coin series follows precisely in the path of the previous, except that it’s very clearly a bridging book, meant to continue the story and move multiple plot elements along and so it lacks the first book’s dramatic scale, which, come to think of it, is kind of a knock on the book and the series because I’d like to think that the artifice of novelmaking shouldn’t be so obvious - but all that said, it was very fun.
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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