I continued to read this series against my better judgment but i’m glad i did because altho the evil wizard was annoying me in the last book, he’s not even in this one, and it’s yet again Abercrombie at his best writing an exciting story full of nonstandard, complex characters.
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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