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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I wouldn't say it's weaker, but a different genre to the others. Much more towards romantic comedy, and almost farce at some points.
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Certainly it's a farce -- what else could it be with a scene like that with Armsmen Roic? And a romantic comedy, with the trials and tribulations of the various romances. And while I admit, farce is not my favourite form of humour, I quite like romantic comedies when well done. But I just didn't think that this book was as well done as some of the others. Not that I didn't enjoy it, just that it didn't stand up to the re-read nearly as well as a couple of earlier ones.
Meanwhile, I just finished
Winterfair Gifts, a short work in the series that falls just after
A Civil Campaign. This, I confess, I quite enjoyed. It fulfills the requirements of a shorter work well.
Next up in the series is
Diplomatic Immunity, but it will have to wait until I finish reading
The Night Life of the Gods, this month's MobileRead Book Club selection from the Patricia Clark Memorial Library.
For an audio title, I think I might do
Sharpe's Eagle next. Give me a bit of a break from Miles and a good excuse to listen to another of my favourite narrators, David Case, reading as Frederick Davidson.