Reviews and Comments

I don’t think I had been prepared for just how depressing the story would be. It’s remarkably good, but at times it just makes me want to weep.

Decent, and an interesting plot, but a bit too YA-ey for my current mood.

Having read the Kindle sample, this caught my interest enough to start. I'm about 1/5 into it right now and other than some pacing issues -- there's one event so far where it feels entirely underwritten for what happened -- it's got my attention.

By the time I reached the end of this I was invested in the characters but still a bit confused. I liked it but I'm not sure I got out of it what Ada was putting into it.

I enjoyed this one quite a bit more, in part because the unreliable narrator became more obvious. Looking forward to book 4.

Compared to the first book, this one was a lot easier to get into and stick with. I think that by the time I got here, I had a sense of the world, and the characters, a bit better.

The book does suffer, a bit, from a case of the "I've got lots of names for the same person" issue, which always causes friction for me when I'm trying to get into a novel, but by the time I hit book 2 I'd gotten used to most of them.

I'll be honest... this one didn't really work for me. The worldbuilding never quite held together for me, and I never really cared for the characters either. A few months later and I remember basically nothing about it.

I finished it at last, third try, and ... well, I just bought book 2, so clearly it grabbed me. The ending certainly sets up a conspiratorial tint to the second book and I'm looking forward to seeing where that goes.

I've bounced off this book twice now... I'm hoping third time's the charm, because the concept seems excellent.