City of Blades by Robert Jackson BennettMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This series is a rare combination--great world building and great characterization. Really rare to get both. General Turyin Mulaghesh is both a war criminal and a hero, and RJB actually manages to fit all of this into one skin in the book. Similar with Sigrud Je Harkvaaldsen, they are two peas in a pod as far as their history goes but very dissimilar in personality.
The world building goes forward here but it takes more of a back seat to characterization. I very much appreciated how hard Jackson worked to make war a human reality--that it is fought by humans and those humans who are soldiers pay a terrible cost even if they are victorious.
I was a little sad when this book ended, which is exactly as it should be. You know you've enjoyed a book when you find you will miss the characters. I hope to pick up City of Miracles soon, to see how this all ends.
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