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A review by tomstbr
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
3.0
I can't quite place this. On the one hand the mystery at the heart of the plot is quite interesting. On the other, it's covered in so much excess it's hard to care. Overall it just left me frustrated.
The author knows MANY things but it comes across as almost pretentious as we bear witness to the depth of her knowledge of the ancients and Enlightenment figures. It might also play a part in how convoluted and contradictory the book ends up being. Apparently there are no nations, but the author draws special attention to the racial features of characters. And who cares if you got rid of nations if there are just new factions in competition. The idea also that they don't use gendered pronouns was hilarious given the reasoning is due to sexual urges. The narration continuously changes style which is quite off-putting. And finally de Sade's disproof of God doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
This book is far too clever for its own good, methinks.
The author knows MANY things but it comes across as almost pretentious as we bear witness to the depth of her knowledge of the ancients and Enlightenment figures. It might also play a part in how convoluted and contradictory the book ends up being. Apparently there are no nations, but the author draws special attention to the racial features of characters. And who cares if you got rid of nations if there are just new factions in competition. The idea also that they don't use gendered pronouns was hilarious given the reasoning is due to sexual urges. The narration continuously changes style which is quite off-putting. And finally de Sade's disproof of God doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
This book is far too clever for its own good, methinks.