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Am I the only one that found Jeemland a letdown? I was impressed with the future world the author took time to create for the first half or so of the book, but then he went all hokey and took events into Jeemland. The idea worked, but I didn't find the dreamworld at all as interesting as his 'real world'. I know Jeemland is central to the book, it just didn't grab my attention. I think I was spoiled with Gaiman's version of how things work in the dream world.
IMHO extreme genre jumping mid-book is generally a bad thing. It is good that Marshal put in some foreshadowing that Stark had strange exceptional abilities or else I would have really been annoyed with the shift from sci-fi detective in the beginning to speculative fiction/almost fantasy at the end.
What caused the neighborhoods to close in on themselves? When Stark talks about his childhood, neighborhoods hadn't developed yet. Countries don't just fall apart into city-states. The author intentionally left this a mystery, but did he leave clues? I didn't pick any up.
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