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Dragon

I've not quite finished Dragon, but it's mainly a how-the-empire-works essay. It's very important for the background of how the empire works, and how Vlad comes to see it, but it didn't interest me as much as the others as a book. (Which is a shame, as I love reading about dragonlords in general. But there you go.)

It fills in several incidents referred to in other books, but none feel exceptionally interesting at the time. (Not that I criticise -- Brust tries something lovely with the way all the different books interweave, the fact that it's not always perfect is not a criticism :))

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ETA: The second half picked up quite a bit for me, and also had some interesting analysis of the different sorts of units used in war at the time.

Orca

This was very enjoyable, though about half of this is narrative, and the other half another how-the-empire-works essay, which is interesting, but would be more fulfilling if either I or Brust were an economist so it really made sense.

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