Just finished it + the sequel and was searching for a review and found this! I found the same things annoying as you but also made me feel a bit like an anthropologist in the way the novel is set up. I found some of the dialogue and plot beats slightly more distracting. But it does make you think about everything? and feel something. I found myself deeply intrigued by the violence of the world and where their current moral debates are happening (set-set rights, gender, housing, etc.) I would be a Utopian.
Just finished it + the sequel and was searching for a review and found this! I found the same things annoying as you but also made me feel a bit like an anthropologist in the way the novel is set up. I found some of the dialogue and plot beats slightly more distracting. But it does make you think about everything? and feel something. I found myself deeply intrigued by the violence of the world and where their current moral debates are happening (set-set rights, gender, housing, etc.) I would be a Utopian.