Giving up on this one. The worldbuilding was good but ultimately not enough to carry me through, and I felt simultaneously like I was too aware of the author being in love with her idea and like I knew exactly where the story was going. Conversely, the characters were difficult to get a grasp on, which I imagine was due to a truly inordinate amount of telling without showing in every respect. Sometimes the characters would even tell who they were in their dialogue, which was terribly awkward to read; in fact, a lot of exposition was given through dialogue for reasons that are beyond me: this is a novel, not a movie, it could have easily gone in the narration where it belongs.

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