The Light Brigade

I initially gave this 4 stars but I've bumped it to 5 because I keep thinking about how good it was.

When I finished it I wanted to immediately reread it to pick up on everything I missed, and see it again with the knowledge of what's going on, because I definitely lost the thread a bit in the middle, this spoiler-stuffed comment on Reddit really helped me https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/bx6lug/comment/eq4w4n2/

Having read that, I saw the brilliance of the novel, it's really expertly put together. I just missed a lot through inattentive reading. Even with that though, the character of Dietz is engaging and human, and Hurley has obviously gone to some effort to flip gender norms in some places, and play down the importance of gender in others which is really refreshing. A little hard to visualise some characters, and sometimes you have to retroactively change the gender you imagined someone to be, but that's quite fun actually.

What's less fun is losing track of who is who and what's happened already, but the writing is so good that even if you don't know what's going on you still enjoy it. Again, I lay the blame for losing track at my own feet, I should have read it in bigger chunks and without taking days off.

Glad I read it, would read more from Hurley.