Title: Can't say I'll read it again...
Review: First the good news: Ms. Resnick has built her world in wealth of detail and depth. It's the sort of place you feel could really exist somewhere on the map of today's world. The bad news... the book often reads like a newspaper clipping. Page after page of how the rebellion is going. In spite of several of the other reviews, I did not find the characters particularly well drawn. I always felt some distance from them, and was never able to sympathize with them. I fact, I was often hard-pressed to determine if some of the characters were supposed to be heroes or villians. This may be real life, but when I pick up a novel, I'd like my heroes to be someone I can admire, someone I'd like to get to know and be friends with. I would have been much happier to see more immediacy in the writing, more sense of actually being there and experiencing the action and the feelings of the characters and less offputting narrative.
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