A review by wazbar
Black Powder War by Naomi Novik

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

4.0

This book has a lot of geographic and narrative ground to cover before it can really get going. While the previous one benefitted from taking its time with that journey, this one I think suffers from eliding some but not all of it. That said, I don't really see how she could have done otherwise, and she does deliver both a sense of devastating defeat* and yet still end on an upswing that makes me excited for the next one.

* Not a spoiler, I think, that Napoleon defeats the Prussian army, since that's also just. History.
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