/lit/ - Literature

>>23471344
>>23471344
Vaguely, but not in a shitty way. It isn’t just ‘fantasy aztecs’.
The main culture definitely has meso ‘vibes’ but a lot of the substance includes Roman, Chinese, and Renaissance Euro influence among others. Inca too.
The gist:
>Main character is a noble who grew up in exile with his father, who didn’t really bother to drill in him the extremely violent and arcane social order of the empire they live in.
>Said empire, based in a metropolis called Osrakum, has a God-Emperor.
>Since the Emperor is dying the nobles are all summoned back home, including protagonist’s dad.
So the main deal - especially in book one - is our relatively ‘normal’ (by our standards) main character getting dragged to Osrakum and having to adapt to and learn to navigate the very dangerous / byzantine imperial society he’s been insulated from all this time.
High points are:
>good worldbuilding
>dinosaurs
>interesting theology / metaphysics
>good characters (though not as many as other, better series)
>really interesting social dynamics and ensuing political / body horror
None of this is a spoiler, all of these points are evident pretty quick. Just not how deep the rabbit holes go.
As discussed above the objectively evil, horribly decadent and nightmarishly violent nobility are ok with homosexuality so if you consider that an issue I might not read it.
Doesn’t come up much but apparently it’s what the review people obsess over.