As expected it is much better than the previous book, The Collapsium.
We are once again in the middle of immorbids who have to colonize a planet because they once were bad kids.
But things are REALLY not going as planned.
The economy is breaking down, some people have DIED, and there is almost no hope for the future (of course there has to be SOME hope because there is a third book in the series).
At the same time there is prologue and an epilogue where we see glimpes of a war against home aplliances.
This book is a real page turner, a lot of things happen and most of them come as a surprise.
Of course there is the usual hard science not always easy to understand: "(...) even impervium breaks down at thirty megawats per square meter (...) a fraction of a fraction of that energy slips in between the pseudoatoms and the heat kicks the electrons right out of their quantum wells. the whole thing reverts to sillicon (...)" but McCarthy is showing off far less often than he did in the 2 previous books I've read.
The main characters are still there, bascal (now a king), xmary and conrad and there are very funny moments such as when the one-hour old princess tries to seduce conrad (yes she is one-hour old, as births are quite special on the planet Sorrow ... hint: a lot of kids are named Mary Faxborne).
A fun read: 8/10
PS Why the hell do they create such stupid covers ????? I look like a dumbass every time someone picks up a book on my desk
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