An Improvement
4 stars
Overall, I enjoyed this book much more than I did Iron Widow. I greatly enjoyed seeing the main character develop more, and also face more consequences for her actions and beliefs than I believed she did in the prior book. On the political side, I enjoyed some of the exploration, but felt that at times it was too on the nose in terms of essentially having semi-recent real-life economic situations copied wholesale into the world, and sometimes in a way that didn't feel quite right for how that works worked.