Seven Surrenders

I gulped this book down after finishing Too Like The Lightning. It honestly stood up to binge reading. I thought I had Palmer's number this time through – and in some ways I did in that twists were less shocking than they'd been in the first book – but this still managed to be a genuinely thrilling book with a lot to think about.

Here's my final warning: I was the first person in my group to finish Seven Surrenders. Friends don't let friends read Ada Palmer alone. This is the sort of book that you need a buddy to digest with.

The first book took a while to sell me. It's hard to look past the obscure philisophy and history lessons. It's difficult to keep straight all the gender fluidity, which makes it hard to imagine in your head what people look like and what the scene looks like. All that said, once you get into it the story takes off and it is a lot of fun to try and figure out whats going on.

Multi-layered, frustrating, annoying, intelligent - brilliant!