After watching season 3 of the Netflix show I thought I should turn around and read the source material so I consumed them all. What I found was something far more substantial than the showrunners picked up on. The show is like someone read the novels, had a dream, then woke up and wrote down what they remembered of the dream--eg not much but a setting, sex, and explosions.

I enjoyed the world building here as it wasn't overly complicated and left us with a lot of questions regarding who we are if you take away the construct. That gives us ample room to play with the morality of life quite a bit more depending on whose subjective reality we're seeing it from.

This was perhaps the strongest book in the series. Lines are clear, people are not predictable but what you might expect, the crime and plays along the thin blue line are fun to follow and guess out. Quick, fun, not too dystopian, not too Blade Runner, and a whole bunch all its own.