Crystal Rain, Tobias Buckell (3)

(Belated post. No spoilers, but there might be some in the comments.)

I enjoyed this, though it’s not the sort of thing I usually read. Once I got into it, I kept going to find out how the world had gotten into the state it was in, rather than to find out what would happen to it or to the characters.

The world was quite refreshing: it’s not a white American based setting, and it felt very real.

As with most multi-POV books, there were some I didn’t enjoy as much as the others. I didn’t really get into the book at all until I hit the first “repeat” chapter (the first time there was a POV who had already had a chapter). I enjoyed deBrun and Oaxyctl (esp. the way O.’s plotline ended). The scenes with Dihana, the government’s leader, seemed important to the plot, or at least the background, but I didn’t enjoy reading them. The son’s chapters could have been left out entirely, in my opinion.

I am curious to get another peek at the world in about 50 years.

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