Jabartik

I continue to enjoy the ongoing story, but it felt like I was reading the ARC instead of the real one.

Just feels a little rushed and could have benefited from some more polish. The ‘sabotage' subplot especially I think will leave many people puzzled, I feel it should have been resolved within this book and not the next one (although I believe I understand what happened, shoot me a message if curious).

Brin's writing style is sort of maddening - I've never been fond of imperfect narrators - I don't mean omniscient, I mean narrators who are an integral part of the story who do “know” things, but don't “think” them where I can see them as a storytelling device to keep the suspense going longer).

Nevertheless, and despite the “main” story not being all that interesting to me, I'm fascinated by the world and backstory that he's created and want more.