I think you might! I hesitate to say for sure, for all the usual reasons, but it's got imaginative worldbuilding and interesting characters--and *very* interesting political machinations. I think you'd like the DarFur plotline, and you'd smile at Mishima's hypercompetence. I think you'd be okay reading this one without the other one.
Some reviewers ding the characters as flat (but then, some reviewers ding the romance, and it was PERFECT for me--like Asakiyume wish-fulfillment romance, right there], but I don't think they are. The major ones reveal who they are through their thoughts and actions, and while it's true that we don't get backstories on them, they're interesting in the now.
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Date: 2022-03-28 10:37 pm (UTC)Some reviewers ding the characters as flat (but then, some reviewers ding the romance, and it was PERFECT for me--like Asakiyume wish-fulfillment romance, right there], but I don't think they are. The major ones reveal who they are through their thoughts and actions, and while it's true that we don't get backstories on them, they're interesting in the now.