I’ve tried to sit down and read this story three different times, and every time have given up in frustration after about an hour and a half. I have no idea what the author is trying to do, no sense of the characters, the world, or what the plot may be. I read and read and get more and more frustrated. I can tell this story exists beautifully in the author’s head. The interactions, the history, and the general philosophy of this universe are all hinted at in a knowing manner, but Greenwald fails to share it with the rest of us. 

There are links scattered throughout the story that the reader can supposedly click and continue down a different avenue, but they’re just links to later chapters and not bonus content or special asides. The reader will not miss any content if he just keeps clicking continue. I think Greenwald was trying to tell this story in a non-linear way, but the navigation is clunky, and its reliance on what is still a basic linear story doesn’t help.

What would have helped this story was if Greenwald had developed some sort of primer for her worlds like fact sheets, encyclopedia entries, and maps. As it is now, every time I try to journey into the story, I find myself in a quagmire of confusion that I never escape from, no matter how much more I keep reading.

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