This book consists on 3 parts, the first a rather rough prison story

that ends with the titular character making a spacesuit out of skin, the weirdest thing I've ever heard, and also stupid because in-world there seems not to be a plausible tech for it either

. The next two stories take part some years later and pretty much follow each other. the book and the plot are interesting but the pace is pretty slow. The characters aren't quite likable or relatable but they are believable. There world building is pretty good. It's almost like a play, it has something theatrical about it, the way the characters interact on such a tiny scale. But I'm the second and third book we find out ||that the gate of the world is in the protagonists hands||. That premise of how human beings deal with advanced technology is super interesting. The book itself maybe was a bit less interesting than the ideas it's playing with. I don't dislike the book but I don't think I like the writing style.