The idea is great and has many interesting threads to it, the potential was there to take it in so many different directions.
I’m relatively on-board with the authors politics, but OMG I got fed up of having them shoved in my face. I want to escape US political discourse, not have it rammed into center stage at every opportunity. This really spoiled the book for me.
A real disappointment – the ingredients were all there and RK has written such great series previously (The Iron Dragon & Rex Nihilo), it feels a shame to tarnish those works with this one.