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Victoria Goddard: The Hands of the Emperor (Hardcover, 2018, Underhill Books)

An impulsive word can start a war. A timely word can stop one. A simple …

Review of 'The Hands of the Emperor' on 'Goodreads'

Really enjoyed the beginning of this book, but quite annoyed and exasperated by the end. Only Cliopher gets any real fleshing out in the whole book and the book is a real hagiography of that character, complete with sermons from our saint. Confuses status and power and is embarrassingly obsessed with status.

It was gentle and kind, though, and well written enough to carry me through the whole book!