/lit/ - Literature

>>12070534
If you make it anon you will be joining a distinguished brotherhood.

>>11574822
Go for it. It's competently written if nothing else.
There is no evil empire here. They don't go around burning and pillaging. It's all very civilized and boring. They place people in economic slavery for the lack of the better word. It makes you shudder.
In the first 50 pages we find out that this country bumpkin from the ass end of nowhere (a shitty island that the "evil empire" civilized, which is a big no-no for Baru's homosexual fathers) has somehow climbed to the position of some sort of financial éminence grise. How anyone though that was a good idea was beyond me. Makes the evil empire look more egalitarian than Sweden.
And it goes downhill from there. We follow her inflict suffering and misery on whole populations for, to me, bullshit reasons in the most passive-aggressive way possible with econ 101. The battles - a couple of paragraphs at best.
There is also this whiff of Mary Sue-ishnes about her. She's not Mary Sue but the events do have this tendency to resolve in her favor. The opposition is not as stiff as it should be (meaning no one stabs the backstabbing bitch at the first opportunity). The court intrigue comes on as something a soccer mom would write, which is funny because the author is a dude.
My rating is basedboy/10.