This novel was a bit slow going in the first few chapters, but it sure did pick up after that, I'm glad I stuck with it! 

The world-building that the author did was a large task, and for the most part, it was done fairly well. But at the beginning of the novel it almost lost me as many of the terms that were presented were not given enough context to decipher what they meant and I felt a bit lost. As you got further along in the novel, many of those words did start to make sense so my advice would be to stick with it. So much of the novel makes sense the further you go along. 

The story itself was dense and heavy. It was a story of rebellion and hope, but the subject matter dealt heavily with topics of racism, slavery, genocide, bigotry, hate, and violence, and at times it would make you angry reading how the DPs would treat the Invisibles. It reminded me of the Holocaust, concentration camps, and even how African Americans were treated in the US after slavery. Lots to unpack with this story in those terms and certainly made you think about how others have been treated in our past. 

Looking at the story as a whole, it was quite good and I enjoyed the story of revolution and trying to find your place in the world.