by Nathan Ogloff
A Science Fiction, Independently Published in 2024, 311 Pages
What I Didn’t Like:
- There’s a lot of details of the world dropped in the first 25 pages. This leaves the reader with a big list of names, history, and places to try and learn all at once with very little context to learn it in.
- The POV shifts within a chapter are often jarring. Some kind of symbol to signal the shift is coming and warn the reader would make this easier.
- Slow sections. This one is character driven. This means, sometimes, between events we have downtimes. They make the book feel slow.
What I Did Like:
- Shindo is a great character. His goals are clear, his challenges are valid, and he’s got a good head on his shoulders.
- Big themes. I like when a story has big themes buried in it about ruling, equality, power, and trust. This one has lots of themes PACKED in there.
- Not everything is as it seems. Things change, people change. This is important in a story of this magnitude for it to come out feeling even a little realistic in regards to characters.
Who Should Read This One:
- Fans of character driven dystopian books about power.
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