Eversion

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I'm not sure either works perfectly - but this doesn't stop the mystery being a wonderful experience for the reader, as long as you are prepared to let go and see how things develop, rather than expect to understand everything that's happening before getting near the end.

If you’re a fan of Reynold’s space operatic stories, you’ll need to adjust your expectations, but patience gets a big reward in this perfectly executed novel. I didn't really care for any of the characters, but that's not uncommon for me when reading works by Reynolds. One day read for me, because even though the structure was somewhat jarring, I just HAD to keep going to figure out what the heck was going on. But you still get to travel through time and space, on sailboats and steamboats and dirigibles and spaceships. It wasn’t predictable per se, at least not for me, but I was hoping for something … deeper, I guess?

I always thought he was the space guy, but this book is about a cast of characters on a ship, off the coast of Norway.

A mind unraveling under pressure, forced to make choices that cause pain no matter how you look at that.

I understand the weirdness of the beginning now but it is difficult to know how the author could have made it better given the overall plot. The story was very fast-paced and I loved being thrown into the thick of it, being as disoriented as Silas. Eversion tautly and convincingly brings to life the intricate and often unforeseeable challenges of identity formation, self-authoring, and belief in agency.