But she grows from a fairly dislikable - though sympathetic - character to one of my favorites. I will say I really liked Lillian’s character direction since the other two characters are old, I didn't feel they progressed as much. There’s Daoud, Ari’s new lover, Jinadh, Lillian’s ex-lover and a prince of Porachis, Memmediv, Lillian’s maybe-current lover and a possible traitor for the Tatie province, Pulan, the head of Ari’s movie-making company, Sofie & Mab, two wives and undercover operatives, and a few more.Īs a result of these two aspects, I found the plot overall somewhat hard to track, and found it hard to be invested in action I didn’t always understand. And I still could not fucking tell you where Liso is.Īnd added on to that, the character cast is huge. We also get little snippets of information about nations like Liso that I found hard to keep up with and sometimes convoluted. It took me a while to really get used to the worldbuilding of this while book one was set almost exclusively in Amberlough, one of the provinces of Gedda, Armistice is set in Porachis, a nearby country, which conveniently is not depicted on the map. But as things get more complicated, Lillian will have to risk it all to save her son. Cordelia is in hiding after a resistance bombing campaign.

This one follows Cordelia and Aristide, two of the three leads of book one, and Lillian, an ambassador for Gedda… and Cyril’s sister. In the aftermath of the fabulous Amberlough, I was worried I would be let down by this book. Not the faintest trace of an understanding.”