rainy_day_reader 's review for:

New Moon by Ian McDonald
2.0

DNF - I was turned off by the "mining the moon for helium" shtick and the half-hearted way he makes everything a contract (still tries to establish strong "norms" to avoid anarchy). Around the 50% mark I couldn't tease out enough of a story to keep me reading and that I didn't care about more than a small fraction of the profusion of characters. It was just too much of a chore to slog through the chaff to get to the few good bits so I stopped. YMMV.