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I found this like a lot of Stephenson books, incredible ideas but not much to get your teeth into somehow. I didn’t hate it but, like Cryptonomicon, I felt I was eating an enormous bowl of stew which had every ingredient in the kitchen thrown into it - a bit of restraint might have made it more palatable.

I had to read this outdoors on a day where the moon was visible the whole afternoon and I could keep an eye on her because it made me so anxious. A big change from all the swashbuckling and syphilus of the Baroque Saga!

until I get a definitive denial from the author, I'm going to hold on to my pet theory that the basic idea is a tribute to Douglas Adams' description of the band Disaster Area:
"Their songs are on the whole very simple and mostly follow the familiar theme of boy-being meets girl-being beneath a silvery moon, which then explodes for no adequately explored reason"

Like dragons, magic and magic systems are soo believable 😁

Grasha wrote: "Like dragons, magic and magic systems are soo believable 😁"

That's missing the point...