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Well…this is a strange one. A very bleak Russian sci-fi thing. I would give the premise 5 stars, but I didn’t care much for the execution. The novel is spread over four parts, each almost but not quite entirely detached from one another. While entertaining and utterly unique, the book just kinda struggles to hold up as a unified whole as a result of this. I also found the extremely graphic sexual and drug use depictions in part one to be unnecessary—I’m not one to be easily offended but explicit shock value for the sake of explicit shock value does not add much for me. I’m torn on whether or not to read the rest of the trilogy. The idea of it all is so intriguing but I wasn’t fully sold on this first volume for the reasons mentioned.