A review by peregrine
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

3.0

My impression is pretty much the same on the second readthrough: the first ~50% and last ~20% of the book are fantastic, but the middle portion where they're actually taking the fortress is kind of a jumbled mess. I feel like the goal of the many POVs here is to emphasize that everyone dying is a Real Person, but we don't get enough time with any of the characters to actually care about them, and it's hard to follow what's going on in the larger scale. Four stars for most of it, two stars for the siege.

I remember book 2 is just fantastic from start to finish, though, so: onward!