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Lots of really great character moments. I enjoy spending time here. Where there might be some convenience to the plot, it still fits the tone.

More fun with the characters from the first novel, but a little darker, with a bit of a truncated ending. It raises the stakes, which makes stories a little less relatable for me, but it continued to keep my interest.

The characters and emotions Osman creates in this series are somehow both powerful and comfortable.

Estimated start date. Had to take a break after the part where they visited the Midwest that had been fully ceded to extremists. Just felt too real at the time. Just finished part five, which I enjoyed (it's good to see Enoch Root again, though I never finished The Baroque Cycle, so I don't know much more about him than what was in Cryptonomicon), though I've lost some of the thread in the interim. It's harder to find time for a book this big, so I'm taking another break from it.

This is an interesting view of American politics through Irish eyes, which is particularly poignant.

Several characters with really interesting quirks and stories, in a universe that has recently gotten bigger than Earth.