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challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
this guy is insane
extremely weird one. like the baru series, there's a lot of faffing about with politics and mechanisms, which I don't mind up to a point, but this book crossed it. I have a deep appreciation and respect for the amount of research that goes into writing from so many diverse characters' different perspectives in such detail, but. it starts to prompt skimming at some point. BUT as with baru, i could not physically stop myself from reading this, so it sure didn't get in the way too much.
he's very, very good at writing complicated people. it's fun. but I do vastly prefer all of baru. I'll read the sequel if there is one, and I'll probably have a great time, but I would also be fine if there wasn't one.
he says in the afterword that this was intended to be a short story, a break from his main series, and you can really feel the dissonance between its beginning and the point at which its scope ballooned. I think it would've served the narrative much better if a good 150-200 pages were thinned off. I probably would've felt okay with it if it were fully self-contained and didn't hint at a sequel :p I wanted narrative completion for reading all that dense math-speak.....
extremely weird one. like the baru series, there's a lot of faffing about with politics and mechanisms, which I don't mind up to a point, but this book crossed it. I have a deep appreciation and respect for the amount of research that goes into writing from so many diverse characters' different perspectives in such detail, but. it starts to prompt skimming at some point. BUT as with baru, i could not physically stop myself from reading this, so it sure didn't get in the way too much.
he's very, very good at writing complicated people. it's fun. but I do vastly prefer all of baru. I'll read the sequel if there is one, and I'll probably have a great time, but I would also be fine if there wasn't one.
he says in the afterword that this was intended to be a short story, a break from his main series, and you can really feel the dissonance between its beginning and the point at which its scope ballooned. I think it would've served the narrative much better if a good 150-200 pages were thinned off. I probably would've felt okay with it if it were fully self-contained and didn't hint at a sequel :p I wanted narrative completion for reading all that dense math-speak.....