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  Jocelyn_Phoenix

  14 февраля 2026

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  This is not a good sequel to book one. Maybe it might have fared better if it was a standalone, but comparing it to the sheer awesomeness of Blindsight didn’t help.
  
  This book made me feel way stupider than the first one, and it’s not all on me. The main character is largely clueless and unaware throughout the whole story. He is there by accident (and I wasn’t really persuaded by “way smarter beings planned everything in advance” part of the narrative) and a lot of the time no one tells him anything. Character motivations are often unclear. The “they are so smart, a baseline human can’t even begin to comprehend them” is annoying. A lot of information is left for the reader to assemble together from crumbs or to infer - way more than in the first book, or maybe it is just way more vague.
  
  The connection with the first book is very slim. With a few minor changes it could have been a standalone. And it’s a bit disappointing, because I wanted to see what happened to Siri Keaton when he came back to Earth, or maybe when he didn’t.
  
  The plot is fast-paced. The beginning is quite exciting, even though things are unclear, but the feeling wears off as things slow down a bit but don’t become more clear. I still liked the plot, the bare bones of it - and I think the ending is cool, but the rest is all over the place. In book one, a lot of scientific and philosophical stuff came together really neatly at the end, and in this one, it’s all over the place from start to finish.
  
  The world is still cool and inventive, and it falls apart epically on so many levels, it’s fascinating to watch.
  
  Overall, it’s not too bad, but I was thoroughly disappointed it wasn’t as good as book one.
  

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