Norwescon discussion

Have you read Failed State? What did you think?

Not quite as “we came far too close to this” as its predecessor, so a bit easier to get through. Has some interesting ideas for a post-ecological-collapse approach to legal liability. But I kept failing to engage with the main character, and by the end, the various legal maneuvers and parties involved got me confused; I understood the ending point, but was still a bit unclear as to how exactly it got there. Not sure if that was the book, or my difficulty in engaging.

If it hadn’t been the book just before this nominee, I wouldn’t have made it through the first book in the series. Far too uncomfortably close to what just happened, and it was very tempting to just nope right out of it.