The book had a little bit of a choppy start for me (hard to follow) but I am so glad I stuck with it. Once the story got rolling I couldn’t put the book down. An interesting, creative and entertaining take on this immortal warrior. Loved the story!

While Keanu Reeves gets most people’s attention (and it definitely grabbed me an made me want to read it) this book reads like a China Mieville novel, which is not everyone’s cup of tea. It is dark, weird, and esoteric. The “action” of having an immortal berserking super-soldier gets thrust into the background in favor of a pychological and philosophical mystery about what it means to be immortal and what that does to the body and minds of the people around them. The story takes a very long meandering journey but the characters you encounter throughout time weaves a really rich and full story.

I love China Mieville, and i love Keanu Reeves. But they love themselves a bit too much. This book is way too long! I have made it about halfway through, and normally i love an epic tome of a sci-fi novel, but unfortunately this one just goes on way too long without really going anywhere. Entire chapters could and should have been cut, but nope. If it had been edited better, and cut down to half the number of pages it would have been much better. But as it is, i’m not going to continue wasting my life wondering when this will get more interesting.

I also bought the because of Keanu’s name attached and I was not disappointed. I don’t understand the negative reviews. Maybe they just didn’t read the whole thing. I didn’t “slog” through any of the book. It was a VERY enjoyable story and written very well. Interesting and thought provoking throughout. I would not hesitate to recommend reading this book. It’s very cool!

Yes bought it because of Keanu - their collaboration feels like it was originally written in another language and then they couldn’t get a decent inverter - words make little sense, words in other languages I guess,sentence structure is horrendous - I try rereading passages and pick up the basics of what I think is going on - like the premise but the story slogs through - I’m trying to make it, but most likely I may end up not caring… don’t buy it, unless you like challenges without hope… save yourself…

The author had me. Super disappointed. The language alone made this a slog and nearly incomprehensible.