Mer Barr

Intriguing (but not new) theme of symbiotic body inhabitation. The publisher is clearly using font and paragraph inset to distinguish characters in the ebook format but it's not done in a consistent manner and causes me confusion. I probably would have found another way of presenting multiple interior and exterior characters in the same scene, easier to follow. How did they handle this for audio mediums?

And I am a fan of the cold-war era spy stories, especially the dark, gritty types of Le Càrre, which this seems to be like. I'm just not interested at the moment.

There was alot of good storyline and I was just starting to understand the new environment and main character when a new character was introduced. Then there was so much stalling of the storyline, introducing backstory (which didn't apply to anything told so far) that I dropped the book.

I see there's another book that just came out. The title is about a character I'd love to understand better and it seems to carry on from this book. Can't decide if I give it a try or call this series quits.

A deceptive and slow start with a boatload of world building and "see how tough a person has it before things change." I just about dropped the reading when I realized I was only about 10% in to the 16 hours; wondering "Is the rest of that 16 this slow and no real plot? And if so, what can the author have to say? But if you hang in there the pace slowly builds, and you get an education in politics, strategy, psychology, sociology, extreme makeovers, and more.

Well written and unexpected as a class in 'ologies'. I'm looking forward to the next book in the series.

I saw the movie version of this story and it progressed slower than the majority of movies I usually see. I do love a spy story and hung in there for all the gaps in the story to close. It turns out the movie plot is pretty faithful to the book's. Closer to the realistic grit of John Le Carrè than Ian Fleming's James Bond. And more modern than either.

Holy cow Batman! I thought I could handle alot of lewd and foul language but this kicked my butt. Much more than "Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Unabridged." I couldn't finish the book.

Outside of that, the plot and the viewpoint were interesting and unique; probably because I've never read Shakespeare's "King Lear."

For some reason I thought this might be humorous but it was more a study in a life extinction event. Not a bad thing but definitely not expected.

Great characters and more great storytelling on an unusual topic.