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Great world building, amazing imaginary tech. A nice surprising twist towards the last third.
Not that much of a story, and definitely not original: a very standard (and quite lame) noir.
The last third is good, but the first 2 (over 450 pages!) are incredibly slow-paced and boring. I struggled tremendously to get through them: maybe a much shortened version would have been a better book.
The characters are very under-developed and do not behave in a credible way: the main one is repeatedly helped out without any reasonable reason. Also, none is really likable or dislikable, nor memorable.
Almost every sub-chapter ends in a Hollywood (or yellow-press) style punchline: very annoying for my self-esteem as a reader, to be treated like a summer blockbuster loving goof.
Definitely no Blade Runner here (as claimed by Publisher Weekly).
It was just good enough to keep reading, but bad enough to struggle for that, so I would not recommend it to my friends.
Once more, I ended up with the conclusion that I am definitely not an Alistair Reynolds fan.