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Ian McDonald: New Moon (2015) 4 stars

Review of 'New Moon (Luna, #1)' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

The “Game of Thrones” comparison works for me: it shares the same mix of having some neat world-building ideas but failing to make the world feel like it actually worked. The violence and sex aren’t enough to distract from so many “how does that even work?” questions or even basic things like how there are weird loan words from all sorts of languages but not a single word of “Globo”, the ostensibly universal tongue, etc.