A review by xenotundra
The Idiot Gods by David Zindell

Did not finish book. Stopped at 75%.

Reached the end of the second act and was whiplash by the most half-assed shock scene

half the cast killed in a few pages by a villain introduced the chapter prior. Not to mention the wonderful resurgence of the battered and used trope of "bury your gays".

I really enjoyed the deep introspection and animal persective/ alternative conciousness, but the insult to the reader's time and intelligence that is the last three chapters of the third act made me want to rip a book in half for the first time in my life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Confinement, Gore, Murder, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Child death

Moderate: Sexual content and Grief

Bury your gays, existentialism, general depressive nihilism.