![]() ![]() The book is self-published, and there were a handful more copyediting errors than a professionally published book would generally have, plus a number of instance of sentence-level wording and flow that I suspect would have been changed. ![]() The island of Albiyon where it is set, for instance, got rid of its monarchy a century before, and it is a sort of medieval parliamentary social democracy-slash-cooperative commonwealth, including a faction that are clearly High Tories (without using that language) wanting to roll it all back, as well as street-level (clearly BNP-inspired) nativist thugs stirring up trouble. It is an interesting mix of embracing some conventions of this type of fantasy and turning others upside down. The book is a vaguely-medieval-Europe, dragons-and-castles-and-magic sort of fantasy that I don’t read a ton of these days, but it is infused with a sensibility that is Scottish (she’s from Edinburgh), feminist, socialist (in a broad sense), queer, and hopepunk, so I couldn’t very well *not* read it. ![]() ![]() I picked this one up because the author makes bookish content online that I quite like – her taste in books isn’t the same as mine, but it’s related, and she’s smart and politically interesting so I enjoy her videos. ![]()
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