Status Updates From The Great Firewall

Pretty action packed come the end. I still didn't really care about the characters, somehow, all was to detached

More things are happening, but I don't feel the story is progressing. It feels like more of the same; there is no sense of time passing, or of a time window closing, although we've been told there is.
The passages taken from The Riding Instructor feel more real than the story.

I think we're getting close to the point where the pieces will fall together and tension start to build

The intringue begins...

The story is still somewhat loose and unconnected at the moment. Several interesting characters.