This book took me by surprise with how much I enjoyed it. The book starts out kind of slow, but once I got around half way through it, it really picked up. A large part of this is that it’s very similar to cyberpunk books, where it just throws you into the setting and very slowly reveals things. Characters will talk about events and things like they normally would. They don’t need to explain these concepts to each other, they’re already very familiar with them. This is disorienting and leads to a slow start, but I think this book will be very rewarding if I ever decide to reread it, since I will already have a good grasp on the setting. Eventually though, you figure out what they are talking about and then the pages start to fly. A lot can happen in just a short amount of time, and because you understand the setting, a lot can be left unsaid. Things will happen and the book expects you to piece together the implications. There are plenty of moments where I would read a paragraph, and then be overwhelmed by ideas of how things were going to play out. And I wanted to keep reading to find out. The book’s strength is easily its world-building, so let’s talk more about that.
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