The third instalment in the Hardwired Series.
A super good story and certainly no complaints on that aspect of the book, but the telling of it leaves a bit to be desired. As in Hardwired, we are told a tale without any explanation as to the background, only for that to be revealed later on.
At 6% i found myself suddenly realising what’s happening in this vagueness that i’d been reading which left me with no choice but to go back to the very beginning and begin again. Why Walter can’t just tell you what you need to know before you read it instead of sometime afterwards i have no idea. There’s a few other places in the book that i was left feeling like i’m going back and forward in time and feeling like i’m not quite sure where i am any more.
It is rather annoying because he is certainly a great crafter of story, with great characters and world building, but then goes and lets it all down by writing things out of sequence and all over the place.
But, it is worth putting up with this downside to enjoy a really good story.
And this officially ends the trilogy, although i believe that Aristoi is kind of set in the same universe with a fair few references to Nero, one of our favourite characters from Solip:System: so i may just have to dive into that in the not too distant future.
