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A review by joshsharp
Crux by Ramez Naam
3.0
3.5 rounded down.
The thing with writing scifi is that the basic premise is to imagine some future technology or changes and then explore what interesting things that would mean to your characters — how the world would be different and how it would affect them. But that's tricky because if you're not careful you can spend a lot of time just proselytising your tech idea and showing examples of how it's cool.
Basically the first half of Crux feels like that.
It's not helped by the fact that there are so many different plot lines — the book jumps around so much, I found it difficult to keep up until I had figured out who everyone was and what I was expected to remember from the first book (it's been a while).
Fortunately the second half contains all the good themes of the first book (aside from all those plot switches every few pages) which means it's full of action and interesting plot twists based on all the nexus technology can do.
I'll read the third book but my enjoyment of the series has been dulled a little compared to the strong start.
The thing with writing scifi is that the basic premise is to imagine some future technology or changes and then explore what interesting things that would mean to your characters — how the world would be different and how it would affect them. But that's tricky because if you're not careful you can spend a lot of time just proselytising your tech idea and showing examples of how it's cool.
Basically the first half of Crux feels like that.
It's not helped by the fact that there are so many different plot lines — the book jumps around so much, I found it difficult to keep up until I had figured out who everyone was and what I was expected to remember from the first book (it's been a while).
Fortunately the second half contains all the good themes of the first book (aside from all those plot switches every few pages) which means it's full of action and interesting plot twists based on all the nexus technology can do.
I'll read the third book but my enjoyment of the series has been dulled a little compared to the strong start.