The writing was simple, but didn't grab my attention. It dragged a little, describing events from the past to character build instead of showing it in present action. The author also needs to look a bit into how to format for kindle and decide whether to write from Pheonix's point of view from 1st or 3rd because she did both. Potential, but not quite ready to be read.

I have always found myself interested in wikileaks documents, but this book wasn't what I was hoping for. I wanted a selection of important documents that I could read and form my own conclusions about, not read an author's rather forceful views that seem bent on stirring up trouble instead of contemplative thought. Many of the documents he was outraged at I couldn't bring myself to much incredulity towards. Instead, I found his opinions overbearing and distracting from my own reading of the original documents.

I like the topic, I've read magazines articles on network science before and enjoyed them. And I like the concepts and ideas and what network science can tell us. But apparently, I just can't read a full book on topic. It takes awhile to explain things and while the text is accessible it just doesn't hold my attention. I had to put it aside.

I have a love hate relationship with this book. It took me months to get just under halfway, at which point I put it aside. But I wanted to finish so bad! I figure this style simply wasn’t for me.

This book has action, no doubt about that, but I had a hard time putting things together. The past had a huge affect on present action, but it wasn't properly explained. Or tiny things I threw away became bigger and I forgot the detail from chapter 1 and years ago. Plus, I either didn’t like the plot, or couldn't connect with the MC enough to care about.

What really pushed me through the pages was the world. Oh, what a world! The magic system is incredible, the interaction between the countries. I'm pretty sure the Israeli Palestinian conflict was the inspiration, and then got boosted up with feminism. with a bit of racial dynamics thrown in too based on historic wars with other cultures. the world is what i read for, it's complexity and beauty. it's uniqueness. it's diversity. But ultimately, that wasn't enough to pull me to the end.

I still praise this book for world building to friends though. i might have put it down, but two weeks later a friend took it from me.