Completed: 5/5/2021
Recommendation: Highly Recommended
Recommended By: Nobody
Review:
This is a real shot at world building and it is pretty awesome. I really enjoyed the approach to magic and I think that this book was realistic about how such a thing would dramatically change the world. Of course, this isn't "our" world and so it isn't how magic changed our world, but how magic played such a pivotal role in Bennett's world. I also like it when magic has limits and this world has those kind of limits.
The reality of feudal poverty and the truly ugliness of cities without real methods to handle sewage, close living quarters, and lack of clothing is pretty well done. There are limits because this is fiction (it is hard to believe that anybody would wear all black in a society that moves between "hot and humid" and "very hot and very humid." It also seems like mud would not be prevalent in that environment--whereas dust would seem to be ubiquitous. Those few things, however, are all that kept me from feeling fully immersed.
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