Thanks for this! I ended up reading The Quincunx based on this review and really enjoyed it.
As an aside, I want to recommend a physical book instead of the Kindle version, for a couple reasons:
There are maps and genealogy diagrams interspersed between chapters, but they were difficult to impossible to read on the Kindle.
I discovered, only after finishing the book, that there’s a list of characters at the back of the book. This would have been extremely helpful to refer to as I was reading. There are a lot of characters and I can’t tell you how many times I tried highlighting someone’s name, hoping that Kindle’s X-Ray feature would work, and remind me who they were (since they may have only appeared hundreds of pages before). But it doesn’t seem to be enabled for this book.
(Also, without the physical book, I didn’t realize how long The Quincunx is.)
Thanks for this! I ended up reading The Quincunx based on this review and really enjoyed it.
As an aside, I want to recommend a physical book instead of the Kindle version, for a couple reasons:
There are maps and genealogy diagrams interspersed between chapters, but they were difficult to impossible to read on the Kindle.
I discovered, only after finishing the book, that there’s a list of characters at the back of the book. This would have been extremely helpful to refer to as I was reading. There are a lot of characters and I can’t tell you how many times I tried highlighting someone’s name, hoping that Kindle’s X-Ray feature would work, and remind me who they were (since they may have only appeared hundreds of pages before). But it doesn’t seem to be enabled for this book.
(Also, without the physical book, I didn’t realize how long The Quincunx is.)
Even with those difficulties, a great read.