A review by lesserjoke
The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi

2.0

I sympathize with speculative fiction writers who don’t want to explain things about their universe that would be obvious to its characters, but there still need to be some clues for readers to pick up on. The Quantum Thief throws you right into the deep end, with many basic elements of its story not making sense until roughly halfway through the text and others still unclear at its end. There are elements of this novel that are neat, but as a whole it’s a jumbled mess that simply doesn’t cohere.