So this is my first Scalzi book, and, I think from all the hype I've heard about him over the years, I was sort of underwhelmed. 
 The story wasn't actually what I was expecting at all. A couple of chapters in, I thought to myself, "oh, this is a murder mystery novel." I don't usual go for those... but it really was just a mystery novel with a dystopia/science fiction thrown in. And not a very good mystery novel as mystery novels go. 
 I was really underwhelmed with the ending as well. It was spoon fed to you the whole way which was surprising because the beginning of the novel was really well written, not giving anything away. The world is written under the words. But this leads into the story becoming a lot of fucking dialogue, explaining all the complex bits in scene after scene of characters talking the mystery out. 
 So beginning was good; ending was lacking. 
 Oh, and there's a review here, high up on the review list, that states the reviewer almost gave up trying to understand what the fuck the author was talking about at the beginning and it's too difficult to understand. This almost threw me off from reading. Don't listen to this review. If you've read any semblance of a good book before, you'll get the story.