A review by nakedsushi
Black Powder War by Naomi Novik

2.0

This had been lingering on my "To Read" list for years. I liked the first two books, so I finally figured I should read the third book. It was fine. There was just a lot of descriptions of battle locales that I glossed over. Tonally, I didn't exactly like the Anglo-centric colonialism even though there were some criticisms of it in the book. The whole harem thing was tiresome. I actually didn't really care if they won or lost some of the battles.

In the first two books, I was entertained by the novelty of air battles on dragons. But now that those are expected, the book is less exciting. I'm probably done with this series now.