What I liked:
1.Narration by both male and females without a man doing a female voice ever. (lord, I hate that)
2.Unique plot. Definitely not what I was expecting which was refreshing.
3. Characters that had a lot of potential.
4. Character growth and facets. like Clara being very free with her language despite being a a spark maiden. And Jasina owning her sexuality
What fell flat for me:
1. the secondary character narration. that weird dude voice, I cannot with.
2. the sheer length of time spent on the Spark maiden and extraction part. way too long.
3. conversely, the speed with which we learn an insane amount of information in Sparktopia.
I kept looking at the time left wondering how we would see any satisfying resolution in what remained.
4. the lack of clarity about wtf was even going on. for the amount of time spent in Tau of the Spark maidens. the time spent in sparktopia was ridiculously short. It wasn’t until the epilog that we get told what the structure of the world is. that felt really lazy and rushed.
5. the speed of the sex scene with Clara and Tyse. there was so much to Finn’s numerous “trysts” (overused word in the book) and then we get like a 10 second description for Clara and Tyse finally getting it on. disappointing for sure.
6. The abrupt end. I know it’s leading to a second book but still, too abrupt for my liking.