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Children of Memory
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Thanks to NetGalley for the digital ARC.
There are a lot of interesting themes. There's an exploration of the meanings of identity, consciousness, sentience, and reality itself. Also presented, some interesting moral quandaries embedded in those aforementioned themes. The book gives you a lot to think about. And it's all accomplished while expanding the universe presented in the series' previous books.
At the same time, the two previous books feel somewhat abandoned. Personally, the most enjoyable parts of the series have arisen from its scope. There's been a sense of monumental progress throughout; bounding across generations at the flick of a page. This book felt...stuck. In fact, I felt I was being intentionally frustrated for 78% (exactly) of the book. Repetitive scenes, flat characters, unreliable narrators. Maybe it was meant to evoke a sense of mystery, but I didn't even understand the nature of the problem for the vast majority of the book. After being presented with the answer, the rest of the book just wasn't satisfying. Sorry.
There are a lot of interesting themes. There's an exploration of the meanings of identity, consciousness, sentience, and reality itself. Also presented, some interesting moral quandaries embedded in those aforementioned themes. The book gives you a lot to think about. And it's all accomplished while expanding the universe presented in the series' previous books.
At the same time, the two previous books feel somewhat abandoned. Personally, the most enjoyable parts of the series have arisen from its scope. There's been a sense of monumental progress throughout; bounding across generations at the flick of a page. This book felt...stuck. In fact, I felt I was being intentionally frustrated for 78% (exactly) of the book. Repetitive scenes, flat characters, unreliable narrators. Maybe it was meant to evoke a sense of mystery, but I didn't even understand the nature of the problem for the vast majority of the book. After being presented with the answer, the rest of the book just wasn't satisfying. Sorry.