The Shadow Revolution
Probably the best thing about this book is that I now have Warren Zevon's Werewolves in London stuck in my head. I won this book in the Worldbuilder's Lottery this past year. Every year, Patrick Rothfuss does a big fundraiser to raise money for Heifer International. There are auctions of donated items, and there's also a pile of stuff that goes in the lottery. Ever $10 donated earns you one drawing for the lottery. There's a lot of good stuff in there. There are also a few duds. This isn't a book I ever would have picked up on my own. And even after I won it, the main selling point was that it was short. I could read it in a couple of days. Which I did. I was half-distracted the entire time, because this book never quite captured my attention. But it relies so heavily on well-worn tropes, that even that half of my attention span followed along with the plot pretty easily. Technically this is the first book in a trilogy, which appears to be part of a larger wo...