A few years ago I read an entire book before realizing I had already read it. I looked back at my Goodreads read list and realized I had no memory of about half of the books on there. So I built a new habit – (almost) every time I finish a book, I word-vomit my thoughts and emotions into a note on my phone. Sometimes they’re brief, sometimes they’re long-longwinded, sometimes they just ramble…and now I’m putting them here. Please enjoy the madness.
I loved this book. I am still very confused and I don’t know if I’m supposed to be or not. I feel like, more than once, characters were introduced early then brought back way later without any reminder of how we were supposed to know them. But maybe I’m just very bad at just recalling things like that. It also handled some of the world building without explanation, which I don’t necessarily disagree with but I think is adding to my feeling that I’m missing something. It kind of rattled off unusual things as if you’re just supposed to know and accept them. I read it because I really want to watch the show so maybe that will clear things up and maybe it won’t? Like Kovachs and Kawaharas relationship. And how old Kovachs is. I don’t know. Either way, I loved it. It was pretty gripping right from the start. And it didn’t hit too many “futuristic” cliches.
Update: I started to watch the show and had to stop because I loved the book so much and the show changed such massive things (which also made me even more confused than before).