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Great page turner. I listened to the audio version, the reader did a great job of reflecting the protagonist's transition by the use of accents since it was told in the first person.

I enjoyed the world building and the writing, but there a few things that bugged me. Almost every female character had to be described as beautiful and sexy when introduced. I hope more modern fiction gets away from that. I felt some ambiguity about the main quest, restoring Tigana to the way it was 20 years before; and the methods used to do this. All the factions we led by men who had their own ambitions and didn't care much for the common folk. The lead character was very much the best of the them, but ... In the afterword the author addresses this and I understood his intentions better. It still bugged me.

Absolutely stunning analysis of the post Civil War ups (and mostly) downs of the freed people. I thought the chapter about the one county in Georgia and how life changed for its black citizens between 1865 and 1900 was the most impactful. His observations and analysis reverberate to our time. If only the nation had listened to people like him after the war instead of walking away and looking the other way while the enslaved people were terrorized and subjugated.

We've had these two books for many years, I didn't really understand what they were. Since they looked like comic books they must be silly. My ignorance. I picked them up because some people wanting to ban them from public libraries. I couldn't stop reading them. The young man interviewing his hard to get along with father, who survived the Holocaust, was an extremely effective way to tell the story. Vladek Spiegelman and his family went through hell, many died horrific deaths. The Nazis committed evil beyond my comprehension. Its even more difficult to read today, as the wheel of history has turned and some in the U.S.A. show respect for these evil people.