Status Updates From Cascade Failure (Ambit's Ru...

I quit halfway though. I can't stand the characters. I just don't want to read about their angst and their emotional problems. I want heroes, not emotionally stunted weirdos.

Also, I couldn't get past the grammar of the ship's AI being referred to with the singular they. Which is weird, because I had no problem with the pronoun shenanigans in Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand--now there's a good book.

It’s a bit laborious. Another sci-fi tale about how predatory capitalists fuck planets and people for profit. It tries very hard to be loveable.

“just because he couldn’t see the beauty in something didn’t mean it wasn’t there”

“supports and studs and scaffolding, storefronts blocked out but never finished, the skeletal structure of escalators and stairwells suspended between the floors.”
holy alliteration now THAT is how you do it

“apparently, gearing up for a fight scared him less than dealing with his new friends-to-enemies-to-what-the-fuck-now trope”