I finished my re-read of the Ana and Din mysteries while on the subway and wanted to get a new book downloaded before we left the station and I lost my connection. In my haste, I appear to have accidentally bought a book from an author whom I had decided to stop reading because I found his books too viscerally violent. We'll see where this goes lol.
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It's also a bit ham handed. The empire has been portrayed as such a rigid surveillance state where having a political pamphlet espousing counter views is a death sentence. So the guy with the ponytail and turtleneck who's chilling in the political sciences section of the library giving recommendations for revolutionary texts might as well be wearing a sign that says "Hello, I am a cop."
The novel now wants us to believe he's a genuine revolutionary and idk that feels like a no win scenario. If it turns out to be true, the empire was too stupid to survive. If it turns out to be false, the protagonist was too stupid to survive.
@srol If the empire is that ideologically controlling and they even HAVE polisci sections in their libraries, let alone ones they haven't rigorously scrubbed....
The book is about resistance to a totalitarian space empire, and it's very 80s coded in its style and depiction of technology. So much so that I wonder why this needs to be science fiction or set in space at all. It just feels like 1984 with flying cars.
Having seen how brutal the author's other works get, I'm not sure I'm down for this ride.