I stupidly read these 9 books a bit out of order (don't make my mistake) so this is the last of the 9 novels of Abercrombie's First Law series, and I loved it, and I guess it's a little long-winded but nonetheless a wonderful story full of that trademark of his writing - wherein multiple character-driven developments intersect to create a marvelous moment, in a way that feels totally natural and quite surprising at the same time.
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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