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When I finished Daemon it just felt like it had not finished. Not like "this left a cliffhanger" but more like "this was incomplete", so I went and read Freedom too.

Not surprisingly, Freedom continues to be as underwhelming as Daemon is.

I had to suffer for a whole chapter of the author calling Native Americans "Indians" while wondering what happened to the book's editor.

I feel like this book goes even more gory than the one before, more often resorting to just going into gory detail instead of anything else.

One of the main Daemon operatives of the previous book is not even mentioned anymore, did he get a silent death? I can't tell.

In this whole "new society shaping itself up" the characters are still pretty much following the same gender roles and not much changes, which I really find appalling. Just a lack of imagination.

But hey, at least this one has an ending.

I found Daemon in a list of best sci-fi and the idea itself got my attention. It sounded like a mix of ready player one and Neuromancer.

The book unfortunately does not deliver.

It starts as a very "tech-intensive" book, with details of how some characters are doing hacks, penetrating into systems. And then those details fade away as the story progresses (which is not bad, but it feels weird to have such a difference in between).

I found it to also be of terrible taste when it describes a date rape for no good reason. I imagine the reason is to show how psychopathic the Loki character is, but that is well-established as he sends a partner to death, says he always felt an alliance with the nazis and so on. The date rape scene is bad and has no place.

As I kept advancing and the percentage in my Kindle kept going up, I kept wondering how the author was going to be able to close the several ends they opened, because there wasn't a lot of left. Well, they didn't. The book ends pretty much out of the blue and even has a "the end" because otherwise how could you even know?

I can't give one star because the story interested me and I wanted to know more, but not a good book, unfortunately.

The book has a very clear groundhog day style from the beginning, but it's much more drama.

I like how the author introduces you to what amounts to a post apocalyptic world of sorts. The world is fucked but you never get a full introduction of it, just flashes of the terrible things happening here and there.

I liked it but I found it to be heavy at the end, I felt my heart tight by the way it was over.