A review by jamiebiver
The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon

Did not finish book. Stopped at 56%.

Mystery is great, but on some level the world needs to make sense. This is especially true if you expect to hold my interest for hundreds and thousands of pages. If you’re going to use “corruption” as a theme, maybe some description of what you mean? It’s a thing that destroys AI’s and worlds but is also a thing that inexplicably reanimates a person and also is an architectural feature? That is a lot of weight for a single word.   None of the middle aged or older gay men in my life seem to spend this much time thinking about sex, and they are not busy fighting for their lives against giant robots, evil corporations or flawed software, on the daily.  Stop filling pages with worthless words that don’t move the story forward or add meaningful details.