(Belated post. No spoilers, but there might be some in the comments.)<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The world was quite refreshing: it’s not a white American based setting, and it felt very real.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
I am curious to get another peek at the world in about 50 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(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 … Continue reading