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This book was long, boring, and repetitive. This is set in 1830's England, where there's a bit of magic produced by translation, but otherwise the world is unchanged. The story starts out with a somewhat interesting premise, but then nothing of note happens for the next 300-400 pages. When something finally started to happen, I found that I cared so little about these monotone characters that it didn't matter. There are two main messages in this book: 1) colonialism is bad and 2) the author thin
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I found this book to read like a dense, grown-up version of the longer Harry Potter books, with languages in place of wands and greedy professors in place of Voldemort. I don’t love academia books, but I respect the world-building of this one. There is a lot of set-up and only the last 40% of this book has action. I think I would have enjoyed this more if I had any experience with Oxford.
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