Status Updates From Low Town (Low Town, #1)

... problematic.

I love the prose and storytelling, but a word choice made me pump the brakes. Hmm...

A professor I knew, a client of mine, once tried to explain that the war was the inevitable by-product of what he called the “expanding role of the oligarchic financial interests.”

Beaconfield had toned his appearance down since last I had seen him, which is to say he was no longer dressed like a whore.

Wren and Crane! We might as well be brothers! Of course, my namesake is a creature of dignity and poise—while yours is a silly fowl, notable only for its rather aggravating song.