Status Updates From The Known World

It took me a while to learn all the characters' names and keep them straight, but now that I have I'm getting more into it. The writing is a little dry (it almost reads like nonfiction sometimes), but the story is interesting

The middle portion is almost over thank God. For all this man's talents, I just do not care to read about the backstory of these wretched slave patrolmen who are so minor as to be NPCs, nor distant cousins of side characters, nor mothers of side characters, nor all the cold dispassionate people he fills this book with who wander around like ghosts going in and out of life because Jones is obsessed with prolepsis.