Echopraxia

When really hard Sci-Fi concepts get more attention than the actual plot, we get books like Echopraxia. It started out really good. The first half of the book was really interesting to read. But it went kind of downhill after that. Sometimes I find Peter Watt's writing style very frustrating at some places. His writing is very difficult to visualise. It was justified for the first book in the Firefall series - Blindsight, due to the protagonist's mental condition. But echopraxia succumbs to the same trope even though the protagonist is just a normal ”baseline” human. When every sentence is filled with poetic description and technical jargon with no explanation; it becomes really easy to lose focus. No matter how novel the concept is; if the storytelling has suffered severe portrayal issue, it hampers the enjoyment of the actual content.

3/5 stars.