I was really looking forward to this book, having not read anything by the author, and being a massive Sci fi fan I figured I was into a winner, however I struggled to get into it. Starting with the positives, which are very positive, the world, premise, plot and to some extent the characters, are brilliant. The problem I have is with the writing itself, which I'm sure is my problem more than others given the reviews. Dropping pronouns or adjectives in sentances just makes it harder to read and feels clunky in the third person. "Knew it was bad as soon as she got there" rather than "She knew..." made me mentally re read the sentance with the omitted words in my head. Other problems I found was assuming the reader had as good a memory as the author, parts where characters would have a whole conversation without ever stating who the characters were meant I had to go back and re read bits later when it was reveleaed who was speaking. I don't want books to be simple in plot or subtext, but I really want to know who's speaking at the start of a chapter. Assume I've put the book down for 3 days maybe read some other book and picked it back up, will I know who's chatting at the start of the chapter? If not, tell me, don't wait 4 pages. I've seen there's a TV series of this and I'm going to watch it today, everything I love about this book would be amazing in a TV series so hoping it's good. If it is this will be one of the rare occasions I'll be waiting for subsequent TV adaptations before reading the subsequent books, which I might read, but probably only if the TV series is cancelled.