qevreg reviewed House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Tyrant Philosophers, #2)
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. …
my favorite of the series
This one is very different from the first book, but eventually I decided it's my favorite. It's close to a three-way tie though.