25.02.21
Naomi Novik is up there with Frances Hardinge in terms of original, well written, speculative fiction. And this compelling, deliciously dark take on the magic school genre could have been brilliant if only its endless exposition had been trimmed by a no-nonsense structural edit and its awkwardly inconsistent Anglo-American phrasing had been transformed into a proper dialect. But I've noted a frustrating lack of editing in her previous novels (here, here and here) - she's not doing her writing any favours when such promising material isn't polished to the extent it deserves.
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