‘Nicely Charactered, Beautifully Written’ Score: 5/5 I loved this. It’s maybe the best ‘unreliable narrator’ story I’ve ever read. It’s such fun at the beginning of this book to watch the scenes unfold and have a better understand of what’s going on than the narrator. But even without that, the writing is just gorgeous. I may seek out more of this author’s works.
‘Interesting Scenario, Authentic Details’ Score: 5/5 I don’t know what I expected from this. Maybe some idealised picture of space travel with simplified explanations? Maybe the last word in locked-room mysteries, with the locked room being in orbit? Whatever my low expectations, they were thoroughly exceeded by this novel. It’s a techno-thriller more akin to Clancy than a murder mystery, and it dwells eno…
‘Fascinating Idea Of Anti-Memes’ Score: 5/5 I thoroughly enjoyed this book! Memes are hard enough for me to wrap my head around, but anti-memes? The author took the concept and ran with it and came up with a fascinating setting and plot. I’ve no idea who the author is or why he/she/they go by that name, but I did enjoy the book.
‘Fun Local Alien Invasion’ Score: 4/5 It’s always good to see a local angle on things, so a post-alien-invasion set in Norn Iron - and bits of it near where I grew up! - is fun to see. Yeah, I’m still not convinced alien invasions would work like that in practice. But fun nonetheless.
‘Didn’t Enjoy At All’ Score: 2/5 Nope. Didn’t enjoy this. I finished it, but mostly out of stubbornness. It’s a boring court procedural drama that goes into seemingly-endless backstories of people I just didn’t care about. Not my kind of thing.
