A review by lolaleviathan
The Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson

5.0

The first book was good, the second book was EPIC. Anderson really hit his stride here. It's a fabulous bildungsroman, a sobering history lesson, a rollicking military adventure, a philosophical treatise, all written in gorgeously lyrical, historically evocative prose, full of fleshy characters I came to love. I laughed, I cried, I learned about the betrayal of black people in the colonies by both the rebels and the Loyalists, I thought about liberty and violence and the meaning of life. What a great read.