River of Gods

Ok. I'm not going to lie. I had no idea why was going for a lot of this book. I couldn't even claim to know what it was really about until the last fifty pages or so. But I liked it. I liked it's grit and eroticism, I liked the characters, I liked the world McDonald developed and I liked that he dumps you into it with no exposition whatsoever, as frustrating as that could be at times. I also liked it's indulgences - mechs! - it kind of showed that McDonald wasn't so pretentious as such a complex story might suggest. I might have to read this book a couple more times, but I will be looking forward to it.