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The only thing I didn't see were people customized for particular uses, like in Frank Herbert's _The Lazarus Effect_, but that probably relates to my second point. The thing is, all this goes on, and all the npc's shrug it off like "That's how it is, kid. What's ya gonna do" There's no resistance movement. There's no refugees trying to cross the deadly desert. Most all the members of the society just shrug this off as the norm and seem to focus on hiding from it by immersing themselves in the minutia of their daily lives.2. This story's world's relationship to technology is strange. Mention is made of cd players, televisions, and spreadsheets. But no one in the story uses an electronic computing device even as complicated as an addition and multiplication only type calculator (I think there's cash registers, but for all you can tell, they could be entirely mechanical). There's a video monitoring room in a museum, but none of the primary characters in the story uses a phone or any other electronic communications device or even two tin cans with a string between them. The main characters are doing a heist, but with the exception of refined firearms (maybe) and some flexible mylar mirror, it seems like all the technology for and encountered by the heist is involved with magic or from the 1950's. The one time you hear a character talk about something besides magic for providing the basic infrastructure of society, he advocates for replacing magic with a well run bureaucracy (of presumably idealistic or unimaginative persons who won't attempt to manipulate that bureaucracy for more than minor personal gain). It seems as if every technological creation is an import from otherwhere and no one thinks to devise a new solution to a problem that isn't osteomantic in nature. Like the lack impetus for organized political resistance, it seems like another big blind spot. I'm not saying that I think this story needs cell phones and a character who's a technological wizard, but just that there's a background of lots of mundane technology that people use, but no apparent presence of the sort of minds that might have brought it into being.Of course, it's possible that these aspects of the story could be a satiric reference/reaction to current urban life in Southern California, and I'm just insufficiently familiar with that to recognize the satire.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.Solid fantasy heist novelBy Alexander von der LindenThis book had a lot of great stuff in it. The magic system of Osteomancy, is a fresh idea that I was immediately intrigued by. The story setting, a re-imagining of California in the Sixties after a powerful 'mancer causes it to secede from the Union, allowed me to the relate it to the California I've known, while also allowing for creative license. The Heist is used as a literary device and serves to anchor the story when it begins to wander off on to tangents.The issue was that it was all of those things, but not Enough of them. We get a few lines and explanations of how osteomancy works and that Daniel is different, but after that it's mainly listing off the ingredients in people. I wanted to see more Osteomantic baddassery.The world building was very well integrated into the story, almost to the point of being immaterial. Yes there are canals rather than boulevards, but WHY What does that DO for us A few lines near the end up the book don't sate my curiosity. The North/South split, the secession, and so many more things mentioned in passing... I want more of those. I want to know things.And finally the heist plot was almost rudimentary, sketch like. It wasn't the piece de resistance like it was in Ocean's Eleven, or the Heist, or Fast Five, or any other number of heist stories. It was just some scenes, and didn't seem like it was meaty enough.This book had so many great parts in it, but it never seemed to gel together. I dithered between 4 and 5 stars, but in the end, while I definitely want to read more from Greg, and am hoping for more in the same world, it didn't have that Something to push it into five star territory. I'd recommend this novel to teens and up with an interest in fantasy and/or heist novels.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.A superheroes dungeon crawl pretending to be urban fantasyBy Daniel S. PalterFirst off this is more a dungeon crawl than a novel. That's not a turnoff but know what you are getting. The world building is not especially impressive. The writing is at best serviceable. 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