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There were so many unique takes on common tropes in this book. I enjoyed it, but at some point the reader just has to surrender to the plot and not think about it too carefully.

DNF'd at 33%. The characters in this book are miserable, broken human beings. If you were at a dinner party with them, you'd be making your excuses to leave before the appetizers. They are not sympathetic, they are insufferable. Despite hating all of them at the end of the last book, I picked up this book because I was curious where the plot would go. A third of the way through the book, I was describing it to a friend and I realized that it wasn't getting better and life is too short for books you don't love.

Do you like consistently knowing what the F%#* is going on? This book might not be for you.

Do you like it when an author torments the reader? Then this book will satisfy your kink.

I sincerely hope that the final book ties things together or I will completely lose it.

Clever, well-plotted, and at times poignant.

If you like <spoiler>out of left field twists that make all the plot/character development in the book moot</spoiler>, then you might enjoy this book more than I did.

I've really enjoyed reading Afrofuturism recently, so I thought I'd give this a go. The author handles world-building entirely through context clues and oblique references to interstellar politics. I didn't understand the purpose of the parts of the book written in the second person. This art is for someone, but it wasn't for me.