I picked this book up randomly based on the description and I devoured it in a few days. It reminded me of the best “near future speculative” Black Mirror episodes like Hated in the Nation, and I loved the multicharacter interweaving narration although I mixed up people a few times at first 😅 But the payoff of the storylines (mostly) converging was really fun.

And I really liked the various themes of the plot, as someone who always touts myself a revolutionary at heart it even touched on a few of my fears. Like how the decentralized nature of a good revolution is also its weakness, how you never know where the puppet strings end when helping one, how multiple aligned forces can sabotage each other by not knowing they’re working towards the same goal, etc. I’ll be interested to check the author’s other books as I believe they have this same mix of being 2/3 story and 1/3 questions/reflexions, mostly asked to the reader in a way which I liked.