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click here.I don't really understand the point, or the message, of this book. I enjoyed some aspects like the nerdiness of the fake engineering and the characters could be fun. But I found the major plot twist of the enemy being his friend extremely confusing. And their motivations for continuing the war was also confusing. After this point it felt a bit silly. I don't think Orphan's character was consistent between these sections of the book.
Also I got confused by the races. They're sometimes called blue-I don't really understand the point, or the message, of this book. I enjoyed some aspects like the nerdiness of the fake engineering and the characters could be fun. But I found the major plot twist of the enemy being his friend extremely confusing. And their motivations for continuing the war was also confusing. After this point it felt a bit silly. I don't think Orphan's character was consistent between these sections of the book.
Also I got confused by the races. They're sometimes called blue-skin and sometimes just dark skin. And then there are greens and blues, which is related to something else. It felt like the author changed their skin colour late in the edit and missed some instances of them being dark skinned instead of green....more