It saved the book in full estimation, but if we'd had the glories of that character vibrancy and depth and the hint of a great plot twist or two brewing at the beginning, I wouldn't have had any problem slogging through the meh roadtrip or the throwaway battles. What the book really needed were solid characters to pull a tired and not-so-fresh landscape into a vibrant and interesting novel.Īnd we did. (Or even Shakespeare, if you want to go there.) We've got the way overdone psi schtick and a throwaway nanoplague, too. If that isn't bad enough, we've got the old trope of princess-in-disguise right out of standard fantasy fiction. We got ourselves a bit of knife fighting in a tournament and then a road trip with blackmailing spies and a con job to put an empress on the throne of a multi planet empire. That's a real shame, because I was frankly bored out of my skull by most of it. Okay, seriously, this took a long time for me to start caring about the characters, but it finally happened well after the half-way point of the book.
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