A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine is the first book in the Teixcalaan series.  This book showed up on the best books of Good Reads and then kept showing up on the top 10 science fiction books of 2019.

Started: 1/28/2020
Completed: 2/1/2020
Recommendation: Mild Recommendation
Recommended By: Top 10 lists

Review:

I won't be reading the rest of the series.  The characters are flat and the story is not terribly compelling.  As the climax grew, I definitely got more interested, but as it played out, it was disappointing.  Some of the science fiction ideas were really cool and the central idea, the memory, is really a fantastic idea.  For that idea alone, it is worth the read, but that idea, having been presented, gradually loses its luster as the book continues.