this star rating is entirely due to Grillo’s awful translation. Mobilization felt like an improvement over Stratagem, but now we’re back to every sentence feeling like it was translated in isolation from the rest of the book. it is usually, though not always, possible to figure out from context what Grillo has misrepresented, but the amount of work this entails unfortunately makes the book something of a chore. nonetheless, for Yang Wen-li’s sake I have endured, and I’m really looking forward to getting back to Huddleston for book 7.