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You know when peo­ple keep talk­ing about a book. Lah, this is fan­tas­tic! OMG, you have to read this! If you don’t read this I’ll shank you and play hack­ey­sack with your kidneys!

The usual�

This is one of those books. I was cru­elly declined on net­gal­ley so had mostly buried it in my TBR pile and for­got­ten about it until peo­ple started ter­ror­iz­ing me with demands to read it.

Oh am I so bloody happy I did! I loved this book! I stayed up most of the night to read it! It wasn’t per­fect, of course. There are sev­eral things I might have liked to be changed about it but I feel the char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of the two main pro­tag­o­nists was fan­tas­tic. I thor­oughly enjoyed the writ­ing style and the story.

There’s really not much for me to do here. I mostly just want to find every­one else who read this book and give them the high­est of fives.



I mean� yeah, if you want to get tech­ni­cal, it annoyed me that all the antag­o­nists were women (and that there were only two pos­i­tive female char­ac­ters out­side of the main pro­tag­o­nist) and they were all hor­ri­ble peo­ple. That breed­ing of dis­trust for the sis­ter­hood always raises my hack­les and most peo­ple won’t be both­ered by that. I would have liked the atmos­phere of New Bei­jing to feel more� atmos­pherey, ya know? The actual loca­tion felt a lit­tle under devel­oped in that regards. Sure I don’t expect every sen­tence would be filled with reminders to the loca­tion but I wanted to feel the city and the peo­ple and the world � which I often didn’t.

I hope there’s more cyber­punk in the next one. Hov­er­cars, screens, id bracelets, androids and cyborgs is cool but let’s amp up the imag­i­na­tion! Let’s build that world and make it even more fantasmagorical!

But mostly, Meyer is seri­ously on my shitlist for that end­ing! I can’t believe I have to wait until Scar­let! SO UNFAIR!



How could you?! Do you hate us? Are you try­ing to pun­ish us? What, oh WHAT did we ever do to deserve the agony of hav­ing to wait for Scarlet?

I may never for­give. Unless, ya know, Scar­let is REALLY awesome.

I will await my sen­tenc­ing until then!