The opening chapters are a tension-filled trip as we follow our protagonist while she commits breaking and entering. She’s a thief, a highly trained professional, and her matter-of-fact narration about the work she puts into her life of crime can’t help but engender reluctant admiration. It’s not just a quick filching of items from someone’s pocket. She needs to study her victims ahead of the actual job, determine their movements, habits, proclivities until she knows them so well she can predict their movements to a tee…except there’s always the chance something will go wrong, isn’t it?
She’s also a cyborg, so used to her implants and artificial limbs they come off as being completely normal. So we’re quickly placed in a milieu very different from our own, a world of high technology and constant advertising. When she gets tripped up by it, we’re both amused and breathless. How will our heroine get herself out of this mess?
These opening chapters do exactly what they’re intended: they draw the reader in to a fantastical world and make us rabid to know just what happens next.
She’s also a cyborg, so used to her implants and artificial limbs they come off as being completely normal. So we’re quickly placed in a milieu very different from our own, a world of high technology and constant advertising. When she gets tripped up by it, we’re both amused and breathless. How will our heroine get herself out of this mess?
These opening chapters do exactly what they’re intended: they draw the reader in to a fantastical world and make us rabid to know just what happens next.