The blood spilled has served its purpose for many generations, but all good things must come to an end, and on the horizon uncertainty and the possibility of war are beginning to ominously loom and cast a shadow over this paradise, about to be upturned. In order to maintain peace and stability the leaders of the principal nations have resorted to selective and targeted assassinations to prevent any one of them from taking the reigns of power into their hands. To give you an idea of how the plot continues without spoiling anything, in the last book Mycroft made the discovery of a tremendous conspiracy that has managed to remain behind the shadows for God-knows how long. In Seven Surrenders, the second book of the Terra Ignota series by Ada Palmer, the political game heats up even further as the carefully-built and maintained balance is about to be torn asunder.
More importantly, we got acquainted with Mycroft Canner and Carlyle Foster, two people on the fringes of society who are about to herald the coming of a new age, and with it an innumerable array of questions about human nature, ones that generally have no answer. We got to see the inner workings behind the curtains, the familiarities and differences between our world and that one. In the first book we were led through the world and allowed to explore it in tremendous detail, to get acquainted with all the people who populate it, how they think and what they do with their lives. The Terra Ignota series has introduced us to a future society that has managed to stand apart as a unique enough concept in the annals of science-fiction literature.
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