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Books by K.J. Parker
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
by K.J. Parker
· published 2019 · read 2021-04-27
★★☆☆☆
Badass titles are the clickbait of the literary world, and this one worked very well on me. The book was not quite as good as the title. It was a bit too smug and too self-involved and too busy being clever. It's pseudo-Roman military engineering with a snarky first-person narrator. Fantasy Rome doing Fantasy Roman things: the book.