Reviews and Comments

Ok, look, I'm speechless. I'm in awe of what I've just read.

It's a superhero/supervillain story about the size of 20+ regular books.

It's more thought out than most of your three-book stories.

It's wildly imaginative -- basically not a single set of superpowers is generic.

It is intense. Gods, is it ever intense. I cannot even begin.

If you are a fan of the genre, and if you have a month to spare, do yourself a favour and read this. After the first 100 or so pages you will already know if it is for you ... and if it is, there's a lot more where that came from.

jaysis this book, who actually writes 7000 pages of superhero fiction

anyways, I'm loving it so far

A hard sci-fi spaceship story that, surprisingly, has more biosciences than physics. Also social sciences and a world that feels rich and interesting, even if it's far away from the actual events. Very much my jam.

(Oh look, I finally found a way to post my score AND review while posting. I'm not stupid no.)

So the main plot is kind of my jam, which made me ultimattely give this book three stars. Interstellar diplomacy with subspecies of humanity actually felt kind of sci-fi, and once I realised that Earth is basically a stupid banana republic of little consequence the story started making more sense. But oh how I disliked the narrator protagonist, the whiny diplomat with the emotional maturity of a 16-year old, and everything related to his relationship stupidities. He was so unbelievably annoying that I probably will not check out any other books, even though I'd kind of like to see where the big story goes.