I have to say that I'm a little disappointed with this book. On numerous occasions when I felt like putting it down and giving up, I rallied because of the hope that it would get better.
It didn't.
And as a firm believer in the strength of the protagonist, there just wasn't any in Alexandra. She was no Cat Velis. I found her to be depending wholly on Vartan, Nokomis, Nim, her mother, her father, her boss, etc. etc. etc. She didn't have any agency as the main character. It's too bad, really. The book is definitely well-researched and Neville knows what she's talking about when it comes to chess, history, and geography, but the places she could've gone with this book were just never reached.
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