A review by aleffert
The Actual Star by Monica Byrne

4.0

I have a lot of mixed feelings about this. Sometimes I thought it was brilliant and sometimes I thought its reach far exceeded its grasp. From the Neal Stephenson school of endings that stop right at the height of the climax. But I forgave him for that and I forgive Monica Byrne for this. Lots of fun elements from the historical Mayan segments to the future u/dystopia. That said, so much of it was rising action toward that climax, it sometimes felt like not that much was really happening and the classic problem of multiple narratives that right when I was getting into a story it would cut to a different one.