BIG POSITIVE: The author drops us in the middle of the world to let us experience it, rather than using looooong descriptions and exposition. Yay! I love this style of story telling.

DOWNSIDES: Introduced interesting questions: What would immortality do to a power structure? To culture? Does opposing immortality make sense? Introduced an interesting culture that believes humanity exists to create compound, planet-spanning minds and worships them. Then kinda goes nowhere with these ideas.

I liked the Senator. She was an interesting character with layered motivations. And the tech imagined for her house that grows and runs itself is great. The house is part architect, part landscaper, part butler. And again, the author lets us experience the house--from the house's point-of-view, rather than writing an essay about his neato tech idea. The house and the Senator were very creative and fun to read.

I also liked the nano drone pilot action sequence. Again, immersive instead of descriptive.