CCamfield
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A couple of days ago I started reading Shadow by British author K. J. Parker.
I have read one book of hers before, The Colour in the Steel, which didn't impress me enough to read the next book in the series. Shadow, however, is really good.
The book opens with the main character waking up. He's lying in the mud of a battlefield, surrounded by corpses, and he discovers that he's lost his memory.
As the book unfolds, we learn that the empire of the setting has had dozens of emperors in the last century. Like late Rome, any general good enough to be successful against its enemies is considered a danger to the throne.
There are conspiracies afoot, and apparently the protagonist was involved in one of them. Although his search for his identity is frustrated maddeningly on several occasions, he does begin to realize that he might be happier not knowing who he was...
I have read one book of hers before, The Colour in the Steel, which didn't impress me enough to read the next book in the series. Shadow, however, is really good.
The book opens with the main character waking up. He's lying in the mud of a battlefield, surrounded by corpses, and he discovers that he's lost his memory.
As the book unfolds, we learn that the empire of the setting has had dozens of emperors in the last century. Like late Rome, any general good enough to be successful against its enemies is considered a danger to the throne.
There are conspiracies afoot, and apparently the protagonist was involved in one of them. Although his search for his identity is frustrated maddeningly on several occasions, he does begin to realize that he might be happier not knowing who he was...
