I loved this book. I was in a facebook writing group and the author was in the workshop. I don't believe that we interacted at all, but I like to support aspiring writers, so I bought it. This book exceeded all of my expectations.
I love the small chapters. The author has 3 main characters, and each chapter is narrated by one of the three. This made it easy to follow along. Instead of being forced to stop reading in the middle of a lengthy chapter I was constantly reading another. The chapters propelled the story forward in a way that left me wanting to know what was going to happen next.
The book is suspenseful, but not scary. I rooted for every character and they were all someone I could identify with.
The author's style is neat and easy to understand and without the excess fluff that leaves me feeling like my time is wasted. The author does a great job of only including relevant information that propels the story forward. I loved the story so much I think I'm going to buy it for a friend.
I’ve known Chiang for about a year but just now got around to picking up this book and wow— it’s easily one of my all-time favorites.
I loved every character (though I gotta say Ames is my favorite), the writing style was beautiful, the world is fascinating, and I’m not ashamed to say that I cried a few times. This is gonna be one that I read over and over again.