\nA new year, a new month, a new list of books read last month:\n<\/p>\n
\nThe Hundred Thousand Kingdoms<\/cite> & The Broken Kingdoms<\/cite> — N. K. Jemisin \nGlide Path<\/cite> — Arthur C. Clarke Empires and Barbarians<\/cite> — Peter Heather Killing for England<\/a><\/cite> — Iain McDowall
\nThe first two books in a fantasy trilogy that so far has been excellent.\n<\/p>\n
\nAn enginering novel based on Arthur C. Clarke’s experiences in World War II, strongly reminding me both of Clarke’s own enginering science fiction as well as Nevil Shute’s more mainstream novels.\n<\/p>\n
\nHeather continues his examination of the end of the Roman Empire and the rise of its successor states, now widining his focus to take in the Carolingian and Ottonian empires that arose in the second half of the first millennium CE as well. A bit of a slog to get through, but worth it in the end.\n<\/p>\n
\nDescribed as the new Ian Rankin, McDowall has some of his same strengths, most noticably the same awareness of how much politics is involved in policing. This was a fast paced police procedural that I read in a day, about two Black men turning up drowned in the same small city within months of each other, witht he police struggling to determine whether or not it was coincidence or enemy action…\n<\/p>\n