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A review by fixxelious
Echopraxia by Peter Watts
3.0
2/5 for readability.
5/5 for concepts and worldbuilding.
Just like with prequel blindsight, its really hard to follow whats happening at times. Im talking about stuff like where exactly characters are, what environment looks like, what they are/did do, what was/is their plan and how it actually went and was executed, if it even was executed yet. When things go down it feels like its unnecessarily exhausting reading comprehension puzzle/test to follow.
Same goes for whos talking right now. He sets a backforth rhythm of conversation at start, then rarely reminds us whos talking mid conversation so at times you second guess yourself "wait did this character really say this?" and then you have to check from beginning of the conversation.
I would put it on me being dyslexic and english not being my native language but I read a lot of english books and ive read quite consistently for many years just look at my read list... This is something specific to writing style of Peter Watts that just doesnt mix well with my brain.
Which is really shame because when I do comprehend it, its some of my favourite scifi Ive read. Despite action, event and conversational rhythm readability problems, firefall series has some really mind blowing concepts, atmosphere and worldbuilding going on I absolutely love. Its a shame these books crumble on such basic, fundamental levels other less conceptually interesting books don’t.
If therell be third book ill totally read it though, exactly because of these concepts and I am totally now invested in finding out conclusion to this universe peter has built. Maybe peters writing style has changed (or I have changed) by then so that its easier to follow. Ill be also giving a chance to his rifters trilogy.
5/5 for concepts and worldbuilding.
Just like with prequel blindsight, its really hard to follow whats happening at times. Im talking about stuff like where exactly characters are, what environment looks like, what they are/did do, what was/is their plan and how it actually went and was executed, if it even was executed yet. When things go down it feels like its unnecessarily exhausting reading comprehension puzzle/test to follow.
Same goes for whos talking right now. He sets a backforth rhythm of conversation at start, then rarely reminds us whos talking mid conversation so at times you second guess yourself "wait did this character really say this?" and then you have to check from beginning of the conversation.
I would put it on me being dyslexic and english not being my native language but I read a lot of english books and ive read quite consistently for many years just look at my read list... This is something specific to writing style of Peter Watts that just doesnt mix well with my brain.
Which is really shame because when I do comprehend it, its some of my favourite scifi Ive read. Despite action, event and conversational rhythm readability problems, firefall series has some really mind blowing concepts, atmosphere and worldbuilding going on I absolutely love. Its a shame these books crumble on such basic, fundamental levels other less conceptually interesting books don’t.
If therell be third book ill totally read it though, exactly because of these concepts and I am totally now invested in finding out conclusion to this universe peter has built. Maybe peters writing style has changed (or I have changed) by then so that its easier to follow. Ill be also giving a chance to his rifters trilogy.