A review by piplodocus
Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky

adventurous dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

The way this book switched perspectives mid-chapter and even mid-paragraph (sometimes even mid-sentence), made it very difficult to follow what was going on at points, especially when these perspectives were often geographically and thematically separated.

Also, it's a minor point, but I found it very hard to picture our main characters.  At first I thought they were anthropomorphised animals, but then it suggested they were humans of different clans?