Review: The Will to Battle
The Will to Battle is the third installment of author Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota tetralogy. After reading Too Like the Lightening and Seven Surrenders, I opened it expecting some answers and a bunch of new questions. I got both along with a few surprises.
The narrator is maybe the most compelling challenge. Mycroft Canner’s writing style is by now familiar, which is not to say that it’s easy. It’s formal, emotionally unstable, laden with rich metaphor, and intentionally abstruse when it comes to gender.
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