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Cyberpunk 2077: No Coincidence
by Rafał Kosik
This book was great (got it a few days early at a local Books-A-Million)
If you're new to the Cyberpunk Universe, this book is NOT for you. Play the game or watch Edgerunners (which is amazing, by the way) before you dive into this. The slang they use and visual concepts of the characters, gangs, and city itself won't really make sense or hit home to you unless you've spent time with the visual media of this franchise.
That being said, the characters are amazing. Just like Edgerunners, you get to see how people deal with living in Night City. At first, you get introduced to a lot of characters at once, but then you spend a good amount of time in their heads throughout the book, so I didn't find the large cast to be a problem at all. I really like it, actually.
This time, you get to view it from many different POVS (members of different gangs, a corpo, a poor ex-soldier, poor nerdy kid with a nagging mom, an exotic dancer, and more). It really gives you multiple views into what it's like to live in this city.
I even found myself sympathizing with a Maelstromer (only for a second, though). Who would've thought that would ever happen?
The entire plot is VERY Cyberpunk. I don't know how else to describe without spoilers, but it fits perfectly into the other stories we've seen in this universe.
This book does switch POVs very fast. Sometimes, you'll have more than 5 POVs in one section of a chapter. By the end of the first chapter, I got used to it. I also really liked it. I didn't expect to like it, but it fits well in this universe where things happy crazy fast, and the "camera" is snapping to different people quickly throughout the scene. I think it worked really well.
I will say Albert's storyline started strong, but then I got really bored of reading his same philosophical thoughts over and over. We get it...you wanna live in the Net like Alt Cunningham. I liked Albert's story as a whole. I was getting bored of his philosophical thoughts.
If you're new to the Cyberpunk Universe, this book is NOT for you. Play the game or watch Edgerunners (which is amazing, by the way) before you dive into this. The slang they use and visual concepts of the characters, gangs, and city itself won't really make sense or hit home to you unless you've spent time with the visual media of this franchise.
That being said, the characters are amazing. Just like Edgerunners, you get to see how people deal with living in Night City. At first, you get introduced to a lot of characters at once, but then you spend a good amount of time in their heads throughout the book, so I didn't find the large cast to be a problem at all. I really like it, actually.
This time, you get to view it from many different POVS (members of different gangs, a corpo, a poor ex-soldier, poor nerdy kid with a nagging mom, an exotic dancer, and more). It really gives you multiple views into what it's like to live in this city.
I even found myself sympathizing with a Maelstromer (only for a second, though). Who would've thought that would ever happen?
The entire plot is VERY Cyberpunk. I don't know how else to describe without spoilers, but it fits perfectly into the other stories we've seen in this universe.
This book does switch POVs very fast. Sometimes, you'll have more than 5 POVs in one section of a chapter. By the end of the first chapter, I got used to it. I also really liked it. I didn't expect to like it, but it fits well in this universe where things happy crazy fast, and the "camera" is snapping to different people quickly throughout the scene. I think it worked really well.
I will say Albert's storyline started strong, but then I got really bored of reading his same philosophical thoughts over and over. We get it...you wanna live in the Net like Alt Cunningham. I liked Albert's story as a whole. I was getting bored of his philosophical thoughts.