I should have known better, as the whole critique the aristocracy from the inside genre is terrible as fuck. Napoleonic novels (as boomer Americans call the genre) have the slowest dialogue of patricians talking in French in their fucking palaces. And it's basically autobiographical. OMG, be a "writer" and think up new material. Of course, I had to try as the book got great reviews. I thought I'd try it with Anna's Archive being so easy.

Fuckkkkkkkk the long boring ass battle scenes. OMG pls talk less and have more explosions. The beginning of the book is just 1000 pages of Pierre fumbling his way through the Russian aristocracy. I thought that my hentai brain couldn't stand some old slow book from a bygone era, but I'm checking this shit and it was released in 1869!

If I was some closeted horny dude like Tolstoy who loved impregnating my serfs and pretending that I'm a good lord, a book with a loser who meets Napoleon would get me hard. Why can't more books be like DaVinci Code? I wanna discover the conspiracies throughout the art world of Europe and a balanced protagonist, thank you.