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sakon76Title: Victory of Eagles
Author: Naomi Novik
Length: 329 pages
As always, Naomi Novik's books are a superior read. This one very much surprised me in its tone, however; it's messy. And that messiness is appropriate, since it's about war against an occupying force, which is pretty much the definition of messy. I continue to find Laurence arguably the most believable fictive character I've ever read, as Novik doesn't give any easy answers or platitudes or certainties. When in real life do those ever happen anyway? I also love how she's fulfilling the promise of previous volumes with regard to inevitable societal change, and I find the different mindsets of dragons and men fascinating to read and study and contrast, since, well, they both make sense... just not always to one another. The phrase "different kinds of intelligence" kept occuring to me. The end of the book takes a highly unanticipated direction, one that leaves me blinking and wondering where the next book is going to head... though, thankfully, not with the same kind of panicked urgency that the end of Empire of Ivory created.
Verdict: Highly Recommended.
Author: Naomi Novik
Length: 329 pages
As always, Naomi Novik's books are a superior read. This one very much surprised me in its tone, however; it's messy. And that messiness is appropriate, since it's about war against an occupying force, which is pretty much the definition of messy. I continue to find Laurence arguably the most believable fictive character I've ever read, as Novik doesn't give any easy answers or platitudes or certainties. When in real life do those ever happen anyway? I also love how she's fulfilling the promise of previous volumes with regard to inevitable societal change, and I find the different mindsets of dragons and men fascinating to read and study and contrast, since, well, they both make sense... just not always to one another. The phrase "different kinds of intelligence" kept occuring to me. The end of the book takes a highly unanticipated direction, one that leaves me blinking and wondering where the next book is going to head... though, thankfully, not with the same kind of panicked urgency that the end of Empire of Ivory created.
Verdict: Highly Recommended.
