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Technically I restarted after leaving it too long. Not the book's fault. Fantasy that feels more like sci-fi in that it talks about the present in the guise of another world, rather than being a phantasy of bucolic racialist feudalism. Has labour and a mode of production, and every story is far richer for that. Highly recommend.

"Take the gun out of Irish politics--maybe. But not at the command of those in [Leinster House, Stormont, and Westminister (parliaments governing Ireland)]. As long as there is injustice the gun will always be there. And if we really want to take it out why not give it to the Palestinians? And who will have the cheek to tell us that they do not need it?" --Brendan Hughes, H-Blocks IRA prisoners' OC during 1980 hunger strike, writing in 2002

Well, its about what I expected. Jane austen for boys, with worse writing, no women with interiority, and rather than contemporary it is a post war brit romanticising 150yrs prior. Not sure I can even tell my family member I consumed any of it. Plus my "listen to audiobooks 8h a day" job is done for another while so who knows when I could bang the rest out. Maybe I never will.

(Jane Austen fucking rules by the way, don't get me wrong.)