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A review by pascalthehoff
Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer
2.0
I was willing to give this sequel a shot, expecting some grand resolution that would hook me for the rest of the series.
As much as I appreciate the – admittedly incredible – style of these novels, as well as their „researcher from another time“ approach, I felt diminishing returns with each chapter.
I respect these novels so much for depicting political quarrels in a far future exactly as dry and slow as this sort of stuff would probably be in reality. However, the fly-on-the-wall perspective on complex happenings you do not and often cannot fully understand got so exhausting here for me that my fascination with it didn’t outweigh the tedium anymore.
As much as I appreciate the – admittedly incredible – style of these novels, as well as their „researcher from another time“ approach, I felt diminishing returns with each chapter.
I respect these novels so much for depicting political quarrels in a far future exactly as dry and slow as this sort of stuff would probably be in reality. However, the fly-on-the-wall perspective on complex happenings you do not and often cannot fully understand got so exhausting here for me that my fascination with it didn’t outweigh the tedium anymore.