Book review of Pretenders to the Throne of God by Adrian Tchaikovsky (opens in new tab)

A lot can happen during a siege, enough so that you do not have to have a book full of battles, you could have just one about the siege itself. This is the setting of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s latest in the The Tyrant Philosophers series, Pretenders to the Throne of God. We will meet new friends and old, as one side of the wall fights the other, with some people happening to go from side to side. Eres Ffenegh is a city known for many things. It sits on the back of a giant dead crab god, and it has...