A review by shallowdepths
Neverness by David Zindell

I can't even work out whether I like this book. There are things about it that are interesting. There are some issues. It jumps around between quite different sections that seem concerned with different ideas and different kinds of storytelling. Which could be a good thing, and there are still common threads to hold it together somewhat, but still a lot that didn't land for me.

I don't regret reading it but I'm feeling relieved to be finished.

And yeah, pretty bad at depictions of women, and some weirdness around what it means to be civilised vs primitive (though that part not nearly as bad as it could have been). Almost entirely unlikeable characters, but I don't personally mind that.

Might make more sense in relation to later books in the series, we'll see. Prequels are weird.