An editor is handed a manuscript in which she is a character, badly disguised, and generously treated.
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Sign inFair warning that the first ten chapters are slow. Push through them — chapter 12 is where it clicks.
Disagree slightly — I think it's meant to stay ambiguous until the arc closes.
This is the comment that convinced me to start it, so thank you.
The translation quality here is genuinely a cut above. Footnotes where they're needed and nowhere else.
Recommended without reservation if you like slow-burn political stories where nobody is stupid.
This is the rare one where the protagonist being competent doesn't kill the tension. The obstacles just scale.
Agreed, though I'd argue the middle section is doing setup work you only appreciate later.
Anyone else notice the author keeps setting up payoffs four arcs early? Went back and reread and it's all there.
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