Added this series to my list a few months back. Read book 1 about a month ago and I’m about 70% through book 2.
I’m struggling to understand why this book is so recommended here and on Amazon. Perhaps the English translation version is just bad?
The pacing is terrible and the plot is meandering (to put it nicely). And overall the character arcs and storyline is confusing. It has a ton of filler content that doesn’t add much and feels like it needs an editor to chop it down / tighten it up.
Every once in a while there are some novelties, like droplets (book 2). But last night while reading I was just skipping pages hoping to get it over with.
Was hoping for Alastair Reynolds but this is more Ayn Rand.
I hate quitting a book but I’m just about there. Throwing out a lifeline in case I’m missing something…
People attach to the technology and I think for some it becomes an intro to hard-scifi which its really not because the tech is just gibberish and poorly implemented. You will hear routinely “interesting ideas” “interesting concepts.”
For some I think the implementation of the technology and all the gibberish that lead up to it, including how they arrived at that tech and still can’t solve their problem creatively, tanks the book even more. For others the tech carries even if its badly implemented and the lead up to it is trash and the characters have no personality and make no sense.