Why exactly did she have to create an entirely separate and functional detective who has to jump through so many hoops to put the pieces together? But the world inside the simulation is exactly the same as that of the actual world? What is the point of that? In hindsight, sure, the book did literally come out and say that there's a good possibility everything is a simulation at some 50% mark but then they make it a point of showing that there is an outside world that gets affected in the exact same way as the simulation. It went too far - to show that Neith was never real and everything we have ever seen was a simulation/a kind of fever dream of Diana. I think the final twist was what made me kinda annoyed. The writing is amazing, I liked most of the characters a lot and the book was very dense with symbolism and whatnot but it kinda turned out to be disappointing. This is my first Harkaway book (I read a few pages of The Gone-Away World but couldn't read more due to something at the time). So, I finished Gnomon after kinda taking too long (for me) and at the end - I am conflicted.
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