


One of the most commonly made comments about the first book, Ninefox Gambit, is that it can be very difficult to understand the first time around, because the author, Yoon Ha Lee, just refuses to hold your hand. But since I cannot avoid the latter books at all, I’m not going to guarantee that everything is going to be 100% spoiler-free. Usual disclaimer: as I am reviewing a whole series at once, I am not going to get too heavily into the plot points of the latter two books, just the first. I had read the books one by one as they had come out, but I had never sat down and binge-read them before.Īnd honestly, now that I have done that-while adding the more recently published short story collection-I think the series is even better. This was all triggered by last years’ Cannonball Book Exchange, where ElCicco was kind enough to send me the three main entries in the The Machinaries of Empire series.
