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Steph Swainston, The Year of Our War
Eos (2004) ISBN: 0-06-075387-0
Score: 0

I gave up on this after one chapter. It was recommended to me as gritty fantasy (and it certainly seems to be that), but I have several problems suspending disbelief in the worldbuilding. We have what seems to be a purely feudal system with hereditary nobles and the best military technology are bows and lances, but we also have newspapers (even at the edge of civilization), professional sports teams, and medical syringes. But what convinced me to stop is the narrator's drug addiction; I just don't like reading about that, and especially if it's the narrator (and the cover blurbs indicate this drug gives him Special Powers besides, ugh).

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