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DNF 37%

The treatment of the female main character Emma got worse. Her being pregnant is somehow way more important than anything else - her life, their daughter's life, MMC's family, friends, humanity as a species, etc. But no, the fetus is the most important thing for sure. 🙄

Mary Sue male main character is also worse in his whole savior of humanity BS but also keeping stuff from Emma. The whole dystopian/post-apocalyptic thing is exaggerated to the point of like, possible actual human extinction. Not really my thing. I stopped reading a few days ago and I find myself wanting to read literally anything else.

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3.0

I still enjoyed The Solar War but the challenges are more mundane than the first in the series. Most of the hard work is done by a billions-of-years-old AI, and having a climax where our genius has to out genius the genius AI was always going to be hard to pull off. All the characters got a bit less complex and less interesting, which is a shame. That said, the overall trajectory is interesting and has brought some new challenges to our heroes at the end of book two. I would probably seek out the third book if I didn't already own it.

A quick aside - you could build a Dyson sphere around our sun and leave a minute fraction of the enclosure open to allow sun to land on the Earth and revolve the sphere in sympathy to Earth's orbit. Probably at less energy cost than war with Earth. I think that would allow the Grid to harvest almost the same about of energy while allowing intelligent life the opportunity to mature and eventually enrich their culture in time.