the all consuming world by cassandra khaw

I don’t know if she always writes like this, or if this was a special choice for this particular book. This is my first time reading Khaw so I was not prepared for her writing style.

The reason I still gave this 3 stars is that I enjoyed the second half much more, but to be honest I do wonder if I’m rating this a little high since I had no idea what was going on a good chunk of the time. Unfortunately, this was not what I was hoping for and I almost DNF’d it a few times. This wasn’t on my most anticipate list of 21, but this book was high up there of books I was excited to read. I was really excited to read this morally grey, angry and dangerous, sapphic cyborgs out to find their missing friend while under their own death warrant… I mean that sounded pretty damn cool to me. With this explosive and introspective exploration of humans and machines, life and death, Khaw takes their rightful place next to such science fiction luminaries as Ann Leckie, Ursula Le Guin, and Kameron Hurley.Įvery year I seem to read at least one book where after I finish I have to ask myself “what the hell did I just read?” well this was my WTH book for 2021. Welcome to The All-Consuming World, the debut novel of acclaimed writer Cassandra Khaw.

As Maya and her comrades spiral closer to uncovering the AIs’ vast conspiracy, this band of violent women-half-clone and half-machine-must battle their own traumas and a universe of sapient ageships who want them dead, in order to settle their affairs once and for all. The highly evolved AI of the galaxy have their own agenda and will do whatever it takes to keep humanity from ever regaining control. but they’re not the only ones in pursuit of the secret at the heart of the planet Dimmuborgir.

Decades later, she and her diverse team of broken, diminished outlaws must get back together to solve the mystery of their last, disastrous mission and to rescue a missing and much-changed comrade. Maya has died and been resurrected into countless cyborg bodies through the years of a long, dangerous career with the infamous Dirty Dozen, the most storied crew of criminals in the galaxy, at least before their untimely and gruesome demise.

The all consuming world by cassandra khaw