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The Chimera Code
by Wayne Santos
This book was a really fun read and such an intriguing concept. In this future, magic and computers will be used side by side in the world. This book follows a Chimera team that has three members: a witch, the muscle and a hacker. Each member working together for whatever the highest bidder has hired them to do.
The world-building was organic and it avoided a bunch of info-dumping which I always appreciate. The history of this world was very believable, which was amazing and also terrifying. There are even subtle mentions of COVID having taken a part in things. And that was just part of the amazing world-building in this one. Everything seemed like a natural flow from the current state of our world to the world in this book. Also, Santos gives the first compelling explanation of how keyboards that are projected into the air would actually work, that I’ve ever read. It’s a small detail but I appreciate it, and I think that gives you a clear idea of what an intricate world this one has. If have any negative about this one, it's that there's just so much detail. To a ridiculous level. Sometimes it felt like it slowed the story at moments.
I thought the characters were very well done. They felt like real characters who had been through real trauma which is not always easy to do. There were details to their lives that I thought really brought them to life and further added to the intricate world of this book. Some other really amazing details that I thought were fantastic: references to AI having a "Turing designation", witches reversing climate change, and descriptions of how powerful people with computers are.
This was a really amazing cyberpunk fantasy and I definitely recommend checking it out!
I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher Solaris, Caffeine Book Tours, and the author as part of my participation in their tour.
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Representation: non-binary, Filipino-American
Content Warnings: violence, murder, rape (mentioned), guns, non-consensual medical experimentation, abuse
The world-building was organic and it avoided a bunch of info-dumping which I always appreciate. The history of this world was very believable, which was amazing and also terrifying. There are even subtle mentions of COVID having taken a part in things. And that was just part of the amazing world-building in this one. Everything seemed like a natural flow from the current state of our world to the world in this book. Also, Santos gives the first compelling explanation of how keyboards that are projected into the air would actually work, that I’ve ever read. It’s a small detail but I appreciate it, and I think that gives you a clear idea of what an intricate world this one has. If have any negative about this one, it's that there's just so much detail. To a ridiculous level. Sometimes it felt like it slowed the story at moments.
I thought the characters were very well done. They felt like real characters who had been through real trauma which is not always easy to do. There were details to their lives that I thought really brought them to life and further added to the intricate world of this book. Some other really amazing details that I thought were fantastic: references to AI having a "Turing designation", witches reversing climate change, and descriptions of how powerful people with computers are.
This was a really amazing cyberpunk fantasy and I definitely recommend checking it out!
I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher Solaris, Caffeine Book Tours, and the author as part of my participation in their tour.
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Representation: non-binary, Filipino-American
Content Warnings: violence, murder, rape (mentioned), guns, non-consensual medical experimentation, abuse