I ... didn't hate it I guess? Which is more than I can say for the other two Takeshi Kovacs novels. The ending was kind of strong and almost prompted me to give the book three stars, but then I remembered the middle parts that almost made me hurl the ebook into /dev/null and brought it down to two again.

My problem with these novels is still the characterization. Morgan is not a bad writer, but he seems only interested in a very primitive "tough buy - bitch" dynamic, which gets tiresome after five minutes. Even so, Kovacs actually at times showed some human characteristics here, but mainly he was just an asshole to such an incredible degree that I couldn't help but wish the book would end with him having the same fate as the people he casually or viciously kills. In addition, almost everybody in the world seems to subscribe to the same power dynamic.

I don't know. Someone must like this, but reading this I just felt as tired as Kovacs. I want characters that feel something besides anger and bittterness. Meh.