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A review by 11corvus11
Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds
4.0
I'm not sure exactly what I think of this massive book. I read this one after the first instead of going in publication order because I read multiple readers suggest reading it second because it elaborated on things and made the other books easier to understand. For me, it read mostly like a separate story from Revelation Space. It's also very very centered around a toxically masculine revenge story and all the women exist as sexual exploits and/or to support the protagonist in ways outside their own interest.
All of that said, I did enjoy this book. This author is so incredibly creative and is a good writer overall, despite the flaws. Like the first book in the series, I've never read anything quite like this. I read a lot of science fiction so that's saying something. I like that there is a mixture of space opera, hard sci-fi, and cyberpunk among other elements. I like that the story kept taking twists and turns and unexpected directions. The big reveals, of which there are multiple, are all pretty interesting even when they were predictable. The world building is excellent. Overall, I will definitely be reading the rest of the books in the series. I think I'm going to take a break for the moment though.
All of that said, I did enjoy this book. This author is so incredibly creative and is a good writer overall, despite the flaws. Like the first book in the series, I've never read anything quite like this. I read a lot of science fiction so that's saying something. I like that there is a mixture of space opera, hard sci-fi, and cyberpunk among other elements. I like that the story kept taking twists and turns and unexpected directions. The big reveals, of which there are multiple, are all pretty interesting even when they were predictable. The world building is excellent. Overall, I will definitely be reading the rest of the books in the series. I think I'm going to take a break for the moment though.