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A review by waclements7
Prince's Gambit by C.S. Pacat
3.0
Re-read of the new edition. The second book holds up better than the first on a re-read.
I do have some issues: Govart. Leaving him alive was, as Damen thought, just a bad idea. Always a bad thing to leave an enemy like that alive, unless it happens to be a really obvious plot device. The use of pretentious language. This isn't the GRE. Sometimes a lesser word will do. I'm an English major, I have a good vocabulary. If it was every now and then, it would be one thing, but it's not. It's alienating and jars one from the reading.
I didn't read the bonus chapter. I started it, but it didn't really seem to add anything. I liked the additional story in the first book--it was interesting an added a behind-the-scenes look at friendship and background on Erasmus.
I do have some issues: Govart. Leaving him alive was, as Damen thought, just a bad idea. Always a bad thing to leave an enemy like that alive, unless it happens to be a really obvious plot device. The use of pretentious language. This isn't the GRE. Sometimes a lesser word will do. I'm an English major, I have a good vocabulary. If it was every now and then, it would be one thing, but it's not. It's alienating and jars one from the reading.
I didn't read the bonus chapter. I started it, but it didn't really seem to add anything. I liked the additional story in the first book--it was interesting an added a behind-the-scenes look at friendship and background on Erasmus.