![]() And those long political and philosophical conversations do slow down the pace and kill the momentum quite a bit. It's an interesting set-up, and it ends in an interesting place, but some of the twists along the way are a bit. ![]() Well, there is definitely lots of action (and lots of violence and sex), but there are also lots of political and philosophical conversations, lots of complex world-building, and a surprisingly complicated plot.Mind you, even taking into account the sluggishness of my brain at following some of the plot, I'm still not sure what I think about that plot. It looked like it was going to be a fast-paced action thriller, the kind of thing that would be great for a sleep-deprived week of night shifts when my brain wasn't exactly firing on all cylinders. ![]() I'm not sure how much of that is due to me picking it up at the wrong time and with the wrong impressions, though. ![]() Marsalis makes a living hunting down other thirteens, but he's about to be hired for something much more strange and complicated than usual.I find myself with very mixed feelings about this one. His kind were meant to be super-soldiers, but now exist in a society that hates and fears them. ![]() Carl Marsalis is a variant thirteen, genetically engineered for aggressive, hypermasculine traits. ![]()
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