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Average rating4.3
I was shocked at how much I disliked this. I wasn't able to get into it at all. The whole book felt flat and, worse, depressing. The writing was very awkward and just didn't work for me. The “edginess” in terms of talking repeatedly about sex was cringey. The characters never came alive in my mind; although their responses to each other in conversation were minutely detailed (facial expressions, thoughts) I could never really nail down anyone's personality, they all just seemed offended and pissed off at each other routinely. Lots of angst and animosity here. I didn't find the world very interesting either, maybe because lots of jargon turns me off. And ugh, the second person present tense!
I was reading this at the same time as the second book of The Kingkiller Chronicle, which is lusciously written, lyrical and beautiful, and that probably had something to do with how much I was able to enjoy this novel.