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devannm 's review for:
The Quantum Thief
by Hannu Rajaniemi
actual rating: 2.5
Definitely struggled with whether to round this up or down, but upon seeing that many other people were just as confused as I was I decided on a technical two stars. With sci-fi novels like this I am never really sure if my confusion is on me or the author, but I feel like I REALLY tried with this one and I still have next to no idea what happened here. There were some good scenes throughout, but I could not for the life of me explain the over arching plot to anyone who asked. I know some people will praise this because the author doesn't 'hold your hand' or do a bunch of a exposition dumps, but there is a happy medium between over-explaining and explaining absolutely NOTHING and this book is far from it. I guess if you are very into hard sci-fi and don't mind reading [and re-reading] VERY slowly then you may be able to enjoy this, but it's definitely not for me.
Definitely struggled with whether to round this up or down, but upon seeing that many other people were just as confused as I was I decided on a technical two stars. With sci-fi novels like this I am never really sure if my confusion is on me or the author, but I feel like I REALLY tried with this one and I still have next to no idea what happened here. There were some good scenes throughout, but I could not for the life of me explain the over arching plot to anyone who asked. I know some people will praise this because the author doesn't 'hold your hand' or do a bunch of a exposition dumps, but there is a happy medium between over-explaining and explaining absolutely NOTHING and this book is far from it. I guess if you are very into hard sci-fi and don't mind reading [and re-reading] VERY slowly then you may be able to enjoy this, but it's definitely not for me.