illegible_scribble
1/28/2019
Well, if you're into endless pages of graphic descriptions of a human body morphing into an inhuman crustacean-spider-being with very alien physiology, you might just love this book. But I read it every day at lunch for a couple of weeks and 1) never felt inclined to dig it out when I got home at night, 2) got way more than halfway through it without ever feeling "grabbed" by it, such that 3) when it came due, I just returned it to the library without even bothering to renew it. The point of the book seems to be experiencing the alien transformation, rather than any real plot.
I've now been told that this is a really poor entree into Asher's Polity novels, and it's my understanding that some of the other novels in the Polity universe might push my buttons. This isn't one of them for me, but if you're an Asher fan, you'll probably enjoy it.