But it made the ending rather confusing for me (particularly as time zones converged) as I didn’t feel like I was dealing with something being set up, and I did struggle to work out what exactly was real and actually happening with the alien stuff.
This is a really personal thing, about my tastes in stories. I never had even a sense of where the book was going or what the character’s goals were beyond “get on with life.” It was certainly moving – the pacing is brilliant – but it lacked that directionality that I like. I never felt like this book was aiming for something.
But I want to have that feeling of heading towards a goal, a finale – that forward momentum to something. I am perfectly happy – in fact, I love it – when a book has a deeply satisfying twist that changes the direction of a book. I like to feel like a book is going somewhere, has a direction. This is a book that feels more like it’s about following a guy through his life and just seeing the bizarre, dangerous things that happen to him now and in the past.
Even finishing the book I don’t think I can tell you what the plot was. I was never quite sure where the book was going, what the goals and stakes and plot were. The second reason is the reason I never fully got into the book. And that did slow me down, make it hard to get into the flow. Even with the time headings to indicate where we were in the timeline, I found it a little hard to work out what the narrative was that was linking the scenes and chapters. The first is that I found some of the scene and chapter transitions a little jarring. It took me a while to get into the book, which I think is for a couple of reasons. The blurb feels like it gives more direction/brings the plot in earlier than the book does, and I’m also not convinced we got the answer he was nominally searching for. It’s hard to describe or classify, with multiple timelines of Kaaro’s life weaving together as he works out what’s happening with the alien lifeform. He has seen inside the biodome, and doesn’t care to again-but when something begins killing off others like himself, Kaaro must defy his masters to search for an answer, facing his dark history and coming to a realization about a horrifying future. Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry and the helpless-people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumored healing powers.
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