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title: 'How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It (The Siege #2)'
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<b>Author:</b> K.J. Parker</br>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4265243902?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss">See in goodreads</a>
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<h3>Review:</h3>
<p>Are the characters nihilistic, casually cruel, sexist? Sure. It's a problematic book in that way. <br /><br />The "this is Constantinople except where I need to change it to help the plot" is problematic in its own way, too.<br /><br />Is it some sort of "see, I am not racist because I swapped people's colours around from the close historical parallel I am using" crap? Oh yep.<br /><br />BUT ... I read it in two days, it was fun. So make of that what you will, it's what it is.<br /></p>
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