Patricia

Only got to about halfway but I'm still marking it as read because I felt the really spiteful need to 1-star it.

Bill is still funny at times, but the whole ‘everything used to be better' and ‘I wish nothing would change' spiel is really starting to grate.

This is such a frustrating book. I loved the world building, but I hated all the characters. The protagonist's character development was just bizarre. Dialogues were terrible. Everything that happened was just so disgustingly... convenient and unbelievable. And for a non-YA book it was damned YA-ish. I hear this writer has other books that are more about the world building and less character-centric. I might try one of those.

Props for the Judd/Poldark reference though.

Superbly written but God how I hated each and every one of the characters in this book.

Can't decide between ‘annoyingly puerile' and ‘hilariously, brilliantly puerile', so halfway between 3 and 5 then. Thoroughly enjoyed not having an idea of what was going on or being talked about most of the time. Not many writers have the guts to do this.