![]() ![]() I absolutely love the Regency, because fashion was #onfleek, and the Napoleonic wars are just like… absolute bae. This is undeniably awesome, and McClellan’s magic system, which relies on gunpowder (ie. Or to put it another way, musket and sorcery as opposed to sword and sorcery. ![]() That is, epic fantasy that for once isn’t set in a medieval world, but actually an early-industrial one! (About the equivalent of the UK in the Regency/ early 1800s). This book is feels fresh and exciting because it’s Flintlock Fantasy. I could not disagree more with Sanderson’s summary. So guess what readers? I’m retrospectively reviewing this book, and why it made me so angry, for y’alls personal charm and pleasure.īEFORE Y’ALLS ALSO KILL ME AND SACRIFICE MY FLESH TO THE REVOLUTION Uh? Et tu Sanderson? Then FALL sword and sorcery. Until last month, when Brandon Sanderson hosted Brian McClellan on his podcast Writing Excuses and literally SHOWERED HIM IN COMPLIMENTS about how his novels are ‘exactly what the reader wants’. I thought I had come to terms with my incoherent rage at this book, put that dark time behind me and peacefully erased its stench from my soul. ![]()
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