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Half the Day Is Night

By Maureen McHugh
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Half the Day Is Night by Maureen F. McHugh

In a twenty-first-century undersea city, terrorists threaten old-money banker Mayla Ling, potentially plunging her and her bodyguard, war veteran David Dai, back into the nightmare of David's violent past.

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3.5
“All of the pieces that I was hoping for in this novel were there: a futuristic sci-fi setting, a narrative full of culture-rich details, and characters whose personas are subtly but unmistakably shaped by their setting. But for some reason, the pieces did not come together for me as well as they did in _China Mountain Zhang_. The novel got off to a very slow start and there was not enough of the main characters to stoke as deep an interest as I was wanting. Maybe if the author had focused on either Mayla OR David and made the novel about them, instead of about terrorism and corporate banking, I would have enjoyed it more. But it is not like the author traded character development for plot -- I think that readers who come looking for a conventional, well-developed plot will be disappointed as well. The book is not fully about the characters, the plot, or the world in which they live and it seems like it should have chosen one of those, at least.”
“I love her, but this isn't her best...read Mothers and Other Monsters instead. I love it so much, I gave a copy to my grandmother. How she felt about it, I don't know, but it's the principle. Anyway, I did appreciate the world she created here, but the story felt choppy.”

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