Holy ####. 
 Okay, first, please do yourself a favour and ignore 99% of the blurb for this book. Because it really does it NO justice at all. If you like sci-fi, just read this book. 
 The layout of the book as a whole is definitely the draw here, and with good reason. Because it is just incredible. And the way everything gets laid out and put together... it is just a reading experience like nothing else. I could not stop reading. The only reason I put it down at all was because it was past my bedtime. Otherwise, I probably would've read it all through cover-to-cover in one sitting. 
 There were so many fantastic twists and turns. And this book does not pull punches. I don't really have anything more coherent to say other than: I cannot wait for book 2. There is so much left to be explored and explained and it is going to be so amazing.