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Lots of air warfare descriptions with the Wasps and the Beetles trying new machines. It was a good read, but disheartening because...you know... war.

I'm on chapter 22, and it's escalating way more than I thought it would. I don't know why I wasn't expecting so much war on a book with "war" in the title. I'm wondering where are Thalric, Che and Tynisa in times like these?

I liked the first few chapters but then at some point, it felt too focused on the joys of storing and organizing physical books rather than reading itself. It had some fun moments but I wanted it to end soon because, yeah, I’d rather be reading something else.

It's a rich historical fiction set in Scotland in the 18th century. Kinda like Outlander but without time travel. It's well done in terms of world-building with lots of historical references regarding the Jacobite rising of 1745. It's an exciting book and the rhythm is good. There was one thing that caused me uneasiness in this book: the prevalence of a raping theme. I know it's historical and you can argue that that's how things were back then, but it's a fictional romance novel and I expected less of it. For example, even though it's not explicit, the "male hero" (Alexander) clearly uses the implicit idea of rape to frighten the heroine (Catherine). Every men on the road that encounters Catherine (or any women for that matter) thinks about "taking advantage" of her. So maybe the setting was too historical/realistic for me?

A reflection on our technology and how the attention economy is do omnipresent today.