Too Like the Lightning

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"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s. It is a hard-won utopia built on technologically-generated abundance, and also on complex and mandatory systems of labeling all public writing and speech... And in this world, Mycroft and Carlyle have stumbled on the wild card that may destabilize the system: the boy Bridger, who can effortlessly make his wishes come true. Who can, it would seem, bring inanimate objects to life..."--Book jacket.

audio cd, 1 pages

Published Aug. 15, 2016 by Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing.

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978-1-6647-2080-0
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reviewed Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)

Tough, dense language but very interesting

I read fiction mostly at night to calm toward sleep. This relaxed time is not the best time for this book. Where I'm looking for entertainment to zone out to, this book required my full attention to understand, so I missed like half of it. It's written, on purpose, in a 18th century style - verbose and poetic.

I'm reading Palmer's non-fiction 'Inventing the Renaissance', which I cannot recommend enough (if you're interested in Renaissance history) - it's very readable. I thought I'd dive into her fiction.

The plot devices are intriguing, which kept me going through the beginning. And once the reveals and action started, I kept going to the end. I'll read the next one even though I'll prbably only get half, just for the plot.

reviewed Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)

I think there may have been a story in here somewhere, but I couldn't tell because the author kept stopping the narrative every other paragraph or so to beat me over the head with a transgender explanation. I finally gave up halfway in. I couldn't have cared less about the story at that point, and there was really no reason to go on torturing myself.