moving to outside.ofa.dog reviewed Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)
"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our …
Review of 'Too like the lightning' on 'LibraryThing'
2 stars
Starts out packed with interesting ideas, gradually devolves into the author's Enlightment fantasy (super Eurocentric with a tokenistic Japanese presence) and by the end veers completely off the rails into a Renaissance-francophile sexual fantasy. I'm not sure why I read to the end.
