A review by mage_cat
The Desert and the Blade by S.M. Stirling

3.0

I think I'm officially done with this series. The world Stirling has created in his Change novels is fascinating, but he and I clearly have different ideas about what makes a story interesting. Relationships between people and culture clashes are far more often told than shown (at least in the detail that I would like) while fights that I would gladly see quickly summed up go on for pages. It's not a bad series. It's just not as much to my taste as I wish it was.