Kiri’s Reviews > The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army > Status Update
Kiri
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The premise is good, but apparently the author feels the need to go into vast detail about military battle tactics for different battles. I can understand explaining conditions.. but tactics? The narrator is good.
— Oct 09, 2023 04:34PM
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Kiri
is 36% done
Instead we get his pet virus anthropomorphic speculation (it doesn't CARE.. they are bacteria), and you would think he'd understand that the virii vs. illness caused are different. If you wanted to write about the Napoleonic Wars, and wax all poetic about the soldiers and etc.. you could have. Typhus as a plot device, w/o knowing wtf you are on about is unhelpful. Pls see Bubonic Plague books for how-to do this.
— Oct 09, 2023 11:39PM
Kiri
is 35% done
Somewhere in Ch 6.. Ok.. The author needs to take a beat and go write a HF novel (maybe a romance?) about Roder, and possibly a few other the other overly well described soldiers. This goes way off into tangents, completely irrelevant to the actual supposed topic. I came here for the Typhus and how it took down the Grand Armee.. more in next comment
— Oct 09, 2023 11:31PM
