As I continue to tear thru this series I continue to think the same thing I have all along, that it’s funny to see a fantasy world inherit so many world building elements from the Malazan series while being so utterly different in most other ways; furthermore I can confidently say that this book lives up to the bridging promise of the previous, with some outstanding and deep character-driven moments.
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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