Mord Założycielski

Apostezjon #3

by Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Audiobook

207 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[eve · Rating 1 out of 5]

i admit that i read this book thinking that it's an individual book, not the last one of the series, so my opinion might not be best equipped. i'm also the opposite of the target demographic, being a young girl, not a man.

the book started out as a sexist, savage depiction of some male fantasy of the future where women are freely objectified, disrespected and abused, and it threw me off a little, but further into the reading the female characters actually gained more agency and importance, like Berta spreading the word about Wargacz's plan, Candy killing Max (right after being traumatised by him but yeah) and women being mentioned as part od the Black Batallion.

the world building is the key in science fiction and in my opinion it was very well executed here, it managed to explain the rules of Apostezjon without being too forward, and the dystopian system made enough sense.

regarding the characters, only the plot of Wargacz/Ira was interesting to me, with Daniel, Trent, Vittollini and Nordmann being just some men thrown into some uncomfortable situations, and ultimately the way their stories aligned by the end was unsatisfying. i don't think we needed to see each of their perspective individually, it would work better if we were informed by current events in some other way, and we focused on Wargacz, the lovitts and the temporists.

Ira had real potential to lead the resistance, especially with his fascinating backstory that we heard very little of, but he got killed off-screen right at the most important moment, which was absolutely anticlimactic, and somehow pathetic Nordmann was supposed to step in his place.
then we only heard of Daniel's plans to impregnate Candy and nothing else, and i was quite disappointed by that ending.
i would prefer some satisfying description of how the temporists were given more freedom or the lovitts gained access to education and they all lived happily ever after, but all we got was a brief sex scene and a narrow perspective at the grim future.

i wouldn't recommend this book to anyone