Title: Ultimately disappointing
Product review: Steele does a wonderful job with worldbuilding, with the right amount of hard SF details of the logistics, economics, and demographics of Clarke County. His prose is, as ever, always tight and frequently witty. However, the literary tools he uses--in particular, two more or less omniscient characters--are at best annoying and at worst completely disrupt the novel. (Having deus ex machina lampshaded does not magically make its use OK!)
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