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This definitely improves in the back half with the POV switch to Machiavelli, but unfortunately the very depth of knowledge that likely prompted Ennis to write this overwhelms his plotting and characters. While I certainly believe that he's scrupulous in his research, a little less scholarly weight would have freed this one to be more enjoyable as a novel.
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