256 reviews for:

Polostan

Neal Stephenson

3.67 AVERAGE

ronronia's review

3.25

adventurous medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

pazmad's review

3.0

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Heavy with details, but entertaining.

blast_range's review

3.5

dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

gkgraphs's review

2.0

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Dawn is well-developed and provides an interesting narrative perspective. But unlike Neal's other work, the stakes feel low, since there is no clear villain or conspiracy to threaten more than just Dawn.
Act 1, a beginning, with allusions to a (hopefully) compelling middle and end. 

bookrob13's review

4.0

adventurous dark informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

ag11's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jake_robinson's review

2.0

slow-paced

snowbike's review

4.0

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Great foundation introducing a complex lead character (Dawn/Aurora) and mixing in the science developments / entanglements as well as the history and politics. I’m looking forward to book two. Great new Neal Stephenson project (and great to catch his book release / book tour in Seattle for this).

lamora2409's review

3.0

adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

cstalhem's review

3.75

adventurous informative slow-paced