betty reviewed Selling Out (Quantum Gravity, Book 2) by Justina Robson
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3 stars
Definitely not the sort of series where on can jump right in on the second book. Lots of different POV characters, no explanation of why you should care about them, and little indication that their stories will eventually tie together. Happily, I had read the previous book.
Continues to be decent, although the theme of this book seems to be that the protagonist avoids critical self-reflection and seeks life-threatening situations so that she needn't think about other things too much, and it times she does become a little irksome in this respect.
A minor point, but something I want to quote (also, wouldn't it be cool if we had some kind of nice semantic mark-up for quotes, which when used within bookreviews would automagically source our quotes in the markup? Get right on that, elves!)
"Oojie boojie boozum poppet, yes, yes..." she said to Okie, burying her face in his …
Definitely not the sort of series where on can jump right in on the second book. Lots of different POV characters, no explanation of why you should care about them, and little indication that their stories will eventually tie together. Happily, I had read the previous book.
Continues to be decent, although the theme of this book seems to be that the protagonist avoids critical self-reflection and seeks life-threatening situations so that she needn't think about other things too much, and it times she does become a little irksome in this respect.
A minor point, but something I want to quote (also, wouldn't it be cool if we had some kind of nice semantic mark-up for quotes, which when used within bookreviews would automagically source our quotes in the markup? Get right on that, elves!)
"Oojie boojie boozum poppet, yes, yes..." she said to Okie, burying her face in his ruff as he whimpered.
The she in the above quote is Lila Black, our tough-as-nails cyborg protagonist, talking to her dog, a mongrel. Certain people will know why I quote this.
