This book started out by making me very annoyed and frustrated.
The world is immediately immersive, complex and fascinating.
However, the author says the world recognizes no gender, everyone uses they/them pronouns and then the narrator inconsistently genders people with he or she. Is it a TERFybook which assumes you know someone's gender based on their genitals or secondary sex hormones and denies the existence of trans people, I wondered? It wasn't clear and the book was pretty interesting so I kept going, and I ultimately think the author was doing something interesting with gender, thought provoking, and affirming of trans people, but it took a while to get there.

I also found the beginning of the book very confusing. There are multiple characters named Mycroft, and I had a hard time keeping track at first.

I was not prepared for the level of graphic violence discussed. And that you come to sympathize with the perpetrators of said violence.

Overall, I think I liked this book, though I'm not sure. It made me uncomfortable a lot, but was interesting, and compelling.