I have a review of it in this quarter’s Ideomancer.
I confess, I didn’t really enjoy the book. Some of that was the fact I read it during a Time Of Hate. And some of that… really isn’t.
I have a review of it in this quarter’s Ideomancer.
I confess, I didn’t really enjoy the book. Some of that was the fact I read it during a Time Of Hate. And some of that… really isn’t.
Ancillary Sword is over at Tor.com; while The Path of Anger is live at Ideomancer.com.
Reviewed over at Ideomancer.com:
What Higgins does well, he does very well indeed. The prose treads a delicate line between the spare and the ornate, never quite tipping over into the latter – although at the moments when he lets moments of weirdness, bubbles of the bizarre, shines through, it can lean perilously close. There’s something almost Miévillean about Higgins’ combination of magic and the machinery of 20th century industrial totalitarianism: an innovative slipping-through-the-interstices…