Review: The Inverted World by Christopher Priest

The good

• Intriguing premise / central mystery that grabs you right from the start. The book does a nice job of slowly exploring the mystery and gradually revealing more and more.

• Good world-building. It really feels like a foreign place.

The not so good

• The reveal at the end seems clever initially, and there are some aspects of it I like, but when you actually think about it, it doesn’t make much sense, and it feels like it wastes the premise.

• The characters don’t feel like actual people, but more like automatons to push the plot along.

Rating: 3.5 stars