andrewsbacklog 's review for:

Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer

2.0

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I wanted to love this book. It is filled with interesting ideas of what humanity could look like centuries from now, but written in such a way that it’s both pretentious and inaccessible. The constant shifting of gender and names for each character makes it even harder to keep track of who is who than just the terminology would have. I can understand why some people love it, but this is not the series for me. I almost DNF’d it 50 pages in. Only pure stubbornness got me through.