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A review by libellum_aphrodite
Nexus by Ramez Naam
3.0
While the brain operating system premise is very interesting (so interesting as to fuel a 30 minute conversation at a work team lunch that barely scratched the surface) and the plot moves at an action-packed clip, the writing here isn't good enough to get me past three stars.
* Characters manage to be flat even with elaborate back stories.
* Prose gets pretty jerky and awkward in places.
* Action scenes wish they were in a screenplay (lots of excessive explosions and gunfire).
* Debugging or coding descriptions have an odd pacing to them that doesn't match with how I've seen anyone work with code.
That all being said, I already started the second book in the trilogy.
* Characters manage to be flat even with elaborate back stories.
* Prose gets pretty jerky and awkward in places.
* Action scenes wish they were in a screenplay (lots of excessive explosions and gunfire).
* Debugging or coding descriptions have an odd pacing to them that doesn't match with how I've seen anyone work with code.
That all being said, I already started the second book in the trilogy.