The characters are well developed, and behave in very believable ways.
The plot is well thought out, intriguing, and moves at a good pace, blending suspense and action perfectly. At the root of this story, it is a political-legal thriller set in a scifi world, and that was just what I was looking for when I picked up this book. The action and suspense are top notch, and this is as it should be. I kept finding it in my hands to read a bit more. I could not put this book down for an extended period of time without wanting to pick it back up again. Paranoia and duty are some of the themes explored in this book.
The reader is given a feel of what life would be like in Imperial Japan. I enjoyed this story, it had the right blend of action and suspense melded with a cyberpunk vibe. What if Japan won the second world war? That is the premise that this scifi thriller, and it grips its reader from the start in a believable alternate history and a intriguing mystery. I enjoyed the story, and I will forgive its shallowness on character development because of its novella length. This book was a good hard scifi tale of novella length.
It did not detract to much form the enjoyment, but I wish we learned more about what it is like for them to life this transferred existence Beyond the main character, which is dealt with on a surface level, we learn little about the other dramatic personae of this tale. The characters are simply, and we learn little about them. These, beyond the concept of rebirths, are just flavor and are not explored in any great depth in the story, but it was consistent and helped with atmosphere for the story. While we are on the topic of souls, mythology features strongly in this story, with references to Buddhism, the Greek, Norse, and Aztec pantheons present. Who is killing the Gaias, powerful Capeks that create the next generations after a period of spiritual purification of 'souls'? This mystery is handled well, and it kept me invested in the story. It was a short tale, and not to deep, but entertaining. A hard science fiction tale about a Singularity event, that has all consciousness loaded into robotic life, know as Capeks.
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