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Author has started using lots profanity and lewdness. Any amount of incest is gross. If it becomes more than these hints and winks I will not be able to keep reading.

Innocent threats, aggressors, shields of threats. Good stuff.

🤢 not graphic but… what the heck… Have to stop reading for a little while.

Yeesh. This book is going to be quoted in congressional hearings.

TALK ABOUT A HOOK

Holy smokes

I am excited for this book

Narrator can sound robotic at times. Interesting to learn about the company that was in the news

This is pleasantly entertaining. The author includes a lot of random details that helps to portray the people and their quirkiness.

Horrible. Terrible. No one is DYING. Plot armor is too thick.

Too predictable.

The author has not made any main characters that I would miss if they died. They are very one dimensional. An angry woman wanting to prove herself. A vengeful woman searching for her son. A clueless man searching for answers.

More interested at this point to see what the bad guys can do.

Also can he stop describing Spurt every time the dumb centipede thing eats some porridge?

Had to take a break from the gulag. Don’t like the narrator of this book.

How big is Orca??? Seems like she has been described as taller and broader than every man and woman in this book.

These interrogators had so much power in society.

Getting worse. This is about torture.

This is insanity.

This is going to end badly

Pretty persuasive argument in favor of selfishness.

This Ellsworth character is the worst. Rand does a good job of having her characters embody ideals.

Weird as h*ck

MAJOR plot hole and I know this is fiction but this departure from reality is CRAZY.

As a RAV4 owner, I know that it would not SPUTTER and struggle to start after “it hasn’t been started in days”. It also wouldn’t “roar to life”.

Ignorant author… should have done more research…

Should have known this was going to be a solo character book based on the title. If there’s a little human interaction as Wakers… may have to come back to this book later.

Ah ok. Guanxi

I have to listen to this with my eyes closed to comprehend the points he is making. This might be a book I have to listen to at 1x speed to make sure I understand it.

Massive yawn 🥱 so far. Thought it was going to be more about Chinese government stuff.

Didn’t realize this was a 10 book series, but I think it’s too late to stop…

Wow. A preface gave meaningful context.

So this is like that one Ryan Reynolds movie.

So I don’t really care about the storyline. The characters aren’t great. They are written more as a way to advance debates of how Rand thinks markets work. It’s like blah blah blah then some really good dialog about economics and incentives then back to blah blah blah. More people should read this book though. Lots of populists these days…

He should fire his editor. There are some nuggets of wisdom, but a lot of it is just ramblings.

It’s an interesting story but the writing is not good and the dialog is bad. And the narrator… soooo moldramatic.