A review by imitira
Souls in the Great Machine by Sean McMullen

3.0

I really like this book—dueling librarians, human computation, etc—but the second half is, in fairness, a bit of a mess. Characters go various flavors of insane in lieu of actual development, the timeline starts leaping ahead Dune-style, and things generally get eyebrow-raisingly weird. It's at its best on first read, particularly if you're a teenager.