My biggest issues are, as always, the narrative structure doesn’t work for me — it’s mostly first-person and some third-person limited present-tense narration, secondhand versions of firsthand retellings of what’s gone down; the way they’re put together doesn’t make sense, with the cliffhangers and phrasing — and the narrators all sound exactly the same, from seasoned civilian-soldier Cormac to young Mathilda to Nine Oh Two. (The possible exception is Takeo Nomura, though I also have issues with his characterization, as the most prominent PoC, which I won’t get into here because it’s been a long day and I just don’t have the energy.) I also had trouble relating to any of the characters since the POV switched so frequently, and since the book was structured like a Post-War Record rather than a story.

Other than that, though, it’s a fairly well-written story: thoroughly developed, straightforward enough to follow but complex enough to keep the reader’s interest.