On This Unworthy Scaffold by Heidi HeiligMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
It took me a while to remember some key details from the second book of this trilogy given that it’s been a little over a year since it came out. But now the finale is here and, as with all things Heidi Heilig, it’s a story that breaks all the rules, dissecting history through a skillful world builder’s lens and experimenting with form at every turn, periodically switching to sheet music and stage script formatting, as well as giving those usual tiny interludes into Chakran legend. And of course, really showing just how difficult it would actually be to achieve true decolonization after so many years of Aquitan rule, and years of Aquitans actually establishing their own lives in Chakrana that can’t be uprooted so easily. But Heilig gives it a blisteringly fast pace all throughout, as well as sticking the landing pretty well right at the end, so to this series I now bid ave atque vale.
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