Soq was my personal favourite character to learn more about throughout the story. All 4 make a colourful ensemble and there is a great amount featured in Blackfish City that LGBT fiction readers will adore. Finally, Soq is a beautiful gender-neutral messenger who slides their way around the city delivering messages for the underworld. Ankit is an administrator for the government that keeps the city running in order. Kaev is a mentally ill beam-fighter journeyman who loses on purpose to earn paycheques. Fill is an often unhappy queer young gentleman whose grandfather is a shareholder of the city. About 20-pages later, what has been built up so far seemed to click, I finally found myself caring about some of these characters and the world's secrets and from then on had a generally positive experience with Blackfish City. As the publisher sent me a free copy of this I fought through a bit longer and I am really glad that I did.
I was unsure if this was going to be more of a science lesson than a complete story and therefore was very close to DNF'ing it, giving it a 2-star rating, saying it was unique, interesting and that Miller is very talented but it wasn't for me.
In addition to this, the four main characters that we follow all had pretty isolated stories with the common denominator being that they were based in the same city. During the first 80-pages, I respected what Miller was doing but I wasn't really enjoying reading it. I found myself reading at a very slow pace and googling unfamiliar sounding words with unfortunate regularity with the overall intention being to make sure I fully understood what was going on. As the world is so detailed and the language used is highly scientific it was difficult to get into initially. An example would be that a combination of a telephone, translating system, and radio can be stored in someone's jaw.
Many of the items used by the people of this world are logical but impressive advancements of equipment we use today. This is a mysterious and anonymous news service that civilians have access to. He cleverly explains the social aspects, current technology, and the world's history through the characters points of views or with chapters presented by City Without a Map. Miller has created a world that is so deep, complex, and well-imagined that it almost appears to be a living breathing entity. This settlement is bustling with strife between classes, corruption, amazingly advanced technology, and also rumours of a mysterious lady who arrived one day accompanied by a killer whale and a giant polar bear. In this futuristic and dystopian world, people now reside in an astonishingly well engineered floating city that has been constructed in the Arctic Circle. The results of the climate wars were that the majority of the Earth was either flooded or burnt to rubble leaving very little in the way of habitual environments. I received an advanced readers copy of Blackfish City in exchange for an honest review.
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