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Herring and floods. If I go to Rotterdam I will try the herring (a slug tasting of sea water apparently!)

Ben’s a knowledgable and pleasurable companion. He roots industrial Rotterdam in history and in doing so, liberates it.

More shitty sex scenes - like reading a (vaguely) sci-fi Dynasty. Get on with it…

This book is veering into the ‘shite’ category… the treatment of women is juvenile and I don’t like the retro history feel to much of it. The existential threat is just mind-fuck vampires. And I’m beginning to wonder if it’s all going to hang together… after 600+ pages, it had better…

Don’t like Norfolk - its like those episodes of a great space show that end up set in Earth’s history. No tech. Might as well read a historical novel. Hope we’re not here too long…

Might have preferred the alien threat to be truly alien rather than the old ‘controlling humans’ thing.

Some nasty stuff… not exactly Ray Bradbury but gripping enough.

Glad the Ly-Cilph turned up again - was beginning to fear it was all getting a bit mundane…

Oh and it’s also remarkably sexist. Portrayal of women is… embarrassing. Rather too much salivating over sexy teenagers too. Good job the story rattles along…

The story seems to be starting now… i can feel the page-turning need growing. Haven’t felt it for a while. Gotta love a space opera…

Falling into the old Sci-Fi cliche… interesting ideas, poorly written. The prose is clumpy, sentences which could easily be fixed left confusing which interrupts the flow of the writing. Characters are 2D archetypes. But there are so many ideas: the organic ships, the Edenist and Adamist philosophy, the anti-matter weapons! Still enjoyable…

Exciting passage involving space salvage. Great imagination and detail.

Enjoying the sentient spacecraft and the death and birth cycle of the Edenists. Fascinating and beautiful.

Plain prose, heavy science, fun.

Underwhelmed by the reveal. Hamed is the boss patcher with two penises? Who appeared to be killed by Daedra? Some character we knew nothing about is behind it? Reasonably exciting climax but I’m waiting for the whole thing to click…

The jackpot - a combination of events political and economic that bring about a type of apocalypse that only the rich and powerful survive. Seems remarkably prescient…

So, this el-Habib was the patcher Daedra killed with her thumb at the start of the book, except it wasn’t him, it was a peri. And el-Habib is what? A terrorist? And what does this have to do with Daedra’s sister being murdered or who has now kidnapped Flynne? I need to start taking notes…

And suddenly, I’m a bit lost… have to remember that last time I felt like this, everything became clearer a few chapters on…

Great imagery - in a bar resembling a downed airship…

Lowbeer feels like a caricature, but an enjoyable one. Not convinced that Flynne would be that keen to pretend to be an artist - or that Conner would take the time jump so casually. But at least the plot’s moving along nicely.