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A review by hteph
1636: Mission to the Mughals by Griffin Barber, Eric Flint
3.0
This is a very average book in the 1632 serial. My interest was peaked as india is a new culture and setting to explore, but in the end the experience is a pretty sun bleached one.
There is no characters that stand out, the exotic location is seldom mentioned (except more that that it is hot) and feels like an another germany and the cultural aspect is pretty much limited to mentioning harem, enuchs and slaves a couple of times each page.
We also gets a bit US patriotic blather, a bit Brit bashing (well deserved no doubt about that) and some display of islams failings (I really detests religions, but this feels a bit more connected to current events than to the actual setting) .
Sooo in the end, a unremarkable book with some failings, will probably not buy the next one by the same author couple (if there would be one).
There is no characters that stand out, the exotic location is seldom mentioned (except more that that it is hot) and feels like an another germany and the cultural aspect is pretty much limited to mentioning harem, enuchs and slaves a couple of times each page.
We also gets a bit US patriotic blather, a bit Brit bashing (well deserved no doubt about that) and some display of islams failings (I really detests religions, but this feels a bit more connected to current events than to the actual setting) .
Sooo in the end, a unremarkable book with some failings, will probably not buy the next one by the same author couple (if there would be one).