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Title: Fabulous world building
Review: This tale presents as a situation similar to that of the British Empire the eve before Napolean's invasion at Waterloo....in a VERY alternate Universe. Everything you anticipate should immediately be thrown out the window, other than the attitudes and manners of the noncombatants. That said, the hierarchy and structure of the competing civilizations is mere background to the fascinating personalities who populate this story. It is a coming of age, it is an accommodation of the world other than we know it, it is a striving against odds too great to be fought, it is triumph out of tragedy. Immerse yourself, and spend some time in a very different world.
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