Have gotten through some more of Jamestown in between other demands and what I’m seeing now is rather a clever employment of multiple POV in combination with the characters preparing psychological evaluation of each other via Rorschach testing.
What this does is allow us a deeper examination of the characters not only from their responses, but from the interaction of one-on-one between the two sides or groups of society.
Dialogue has always been an excellent vehicle for pacing, backstory, infodump and indepth character study. Sharpe uses it to great advantage here.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology