There's not a whole lot I can say about this book without giving too much away. It is a very quick read and it ended up at a totally different place than what I expected at the beginning. There were a lot of small parts of this book that I liked the sea fence, Plato's society, the second downfall of Adam and Eve, the "original sin", the educational trap, and especially the studious teenage main character. 
 Anaximander is sitting for an entrance exam for The Academy in a dystopic version of our future. 
 "It was one of the Great Mistakes, thinking of brightness as a quality of the past." 
 "Imagination is the bastard child of time and ignorance," her tutor Pericles liked to say, always adding "not that I have anything against bastards." 
 "Talk your way to understanding. Trust the words." 
 "The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it." 
 "Yet my computer routinely beats me at chess, while my cat struggles to use a cat door." - from interview with author Bernard Beckett discussing how we regularly rip out innards and redesign our computers, but wouldn't think of doing that to our cat. 
 "The modern understanding of evolution makes it easy to view life as little more (or less) than a trick of chemistry..."