Status Updates From Dust (Jacob's Ladder, #1)

The story finally has direction again! Is this how trilogies were written in the past?

This book had such a strong start but I'm not liking it's back half. The plot feels so confused (Ariane has barely come up, most of the story is just Rien and Perceval walking from one end of the ship to the other, Dust and the AIs/Angels barely show up and the marriage plot feels rushed), it's detracting from my enjoyment.

Also why is there *more* incest???

Not a fan of the incest :/

Perceval and Dust need to meet so she can cut off his head what the fuck

Goodbye Mallory…

Wait, so do these people know they’re not using magic or not? And how big is this ship?

Mallory is such an interesting character. Never would’ve expected to see a nonbinary character in a book from 2008, nor for Bear to avoid using pronouns for them without it feeling awkward.

Jacob Dust is so cool…

The worldbuilding is so cool
I’m obsessed!

Also they had to have known “woolly-haired” was a terrible way to describe black hair even all the way back in 2007/8 right?