A review by sfstagewalker
Nexus by Ramez Naam

4.0

This review really is about all three books in the series. I found that this is a very well considered, epic story that takes a far future concept and brings it to a time that is close enough to our own to make geopolitical attitudes and alignments logical. I find that the series was a bit of a challenge to get through on a first reading however, due to its ever growing cast and unrelenting tension. While there are brief moments of respite, I generally found the book to be exhausting, with so much high tension that I would hesitate to pick it up if I was already feeling stressed out. I think that the book will suffer less from this on re-reading, and that I will be better able to enjoy the intellectual and geopolitical game of chess that Naam has laid out for the reader.