sarah_elsewhere 's review for:

The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi

3.0

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This book could've used some sections of info dump because, unfortunately, the exciting revelations were dimmed by the fact that I was never quite sure what anyone was talking about. Plenty of potentially cool world building and a mystery plot ruined by the fact that I never quite grasped the difference between X science magic and Y science magic or what their goals were or was the sun exploded? Was the Earth gone? Where did Jupiter go? What? Plus SPOILERS I effing knew the definition of the word Oubliette before we began so there went that big surprise. Anyway, the characters were oddly interesting so I stuck it out.