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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The ending was meh but I really enjoyed the world development!
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
For whatever reason I envisioned Dr. Bowden to look like Dr. Jacoby from Twin Peaks.
Great read about what/who around you determines your reality, and your own autonomy in choosing that. Political intrigue too!
Great read about what/who around you determines your reality, and your own autonomy in choosing that. Political intrigue too!
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I wish I enjoyed this book more. I feel bad as I really like China Mieville, but I just don’t like crime novels. It was pretty good from a sci fi point of view (though I wished I could know more about how the city and the city came to be), but the crime trope of spending a few pages at the end of the book in a conversation about how everything had happened... made me cringe a bit. Still, learned some new words so can’t complain.
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
EDIT: I reread this immediately after listening to it because my ebook came due at the library right after I returned my audiobook. Reading it definitely helped clear up the issues with names and forgetting small plot points. The end felt a little more rushed than it did in the audio version which was interesting. Still somewhere between 4.25-4.5☆
4.5 ☆. I really enjoyed this book! Reminded me at first of Disco Elysium but I really got hooked by the premise. I listened to it, so I did feel like I missed some things and am going to reread it; I can't tell if I genuinely lost track of some characters or small clues bc of the writing or bc it was an audio book so I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt.
The audio narrator was a good VA and slightly changed his voice between characters, though there were a few places where the editing was less than ideal - too long of pauses was most common and volume/tone changes mid sentence or chapter a couple of times. Really, really recommend!
4.5 ☆. I really enjoyed this book! Reminded me at first of Disco Elysium but I really got hooked by the premise. I listened to it, so I did feel like I missed some things and am going to reread it; I can't tell if I genuinely lost track of some characters or small clues bc of the writing or bc it was an audio book so I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt.
The audio narrator was a good VA and slightly changed his voice between characters, though there were a few places where the editing was less than ideal - too long of pauses was most common and volume/tone changes mid sentence or chapter a couple of times. Really, really recommend!
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No