A review by madamchiroptera
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

4.0

I was not actually expecting to like this book as much as I did. As much as I like space operas, the older ones tend to feel either a little boring a technobabble-y or there’s just too much problematic stuff that it makes hard for me to read and enjoy. There was still a little bit of that misogyny in this book, but it’s few and far between so it’s easier to kind of acknowledge as a product of its time and move on. 

A main theme that I got from it was kind of the morality of war and what it means to be on a side of that war. I perceived the changers as a metaphor for that. It was interesting and I liked the character’s interactions with each other. 
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