The Tangent team having to shoot tons of civilians was viscerally awful and the Jump Cut moment was just an awsome/awkward/holyfuck moment. The book does suffer from some excess exposition/infodump (notably the six page diary entry), but those are thankfully brief and the action scenes are just brutally awesome and hideously violent at times.
Travis' backstory drags a bit until the revelations later in the book but Lee does a nice job of making him an interesting character without overdoing it. HAVENT REALIZED YET SPOILERS OR MAYBE YOU HAVE SPOILERS
SPOILERS MAYBE THEY ARE JUST THE TRUTH THAT YOU SPOILERS SPOILERS HEREAFTER SPOILER SPOILERS OR ARE THEY REALLY The characters themselves are not overly developped but nicely archetypical and a reader may not care about them but will likely care what I actually like how Lee just urges the reader to 'go with it' because that's the situation the characters are in. The central conceit of the books - that there are these items, don't know what they are or how they work but they do cool stuff - is fine unless you're the kind of reader who needs to understand how everything works, in which case the books are likely to be more frustrating than anything. I'm reminded of Asher or Morgan without getting as far into the 'howzitwork?' of the relevant widgits. It's rare that a sci fi action thriller novel can deliver that level of thinkymeatz strain and not get too far into the sci fi elements of it but Lee gets around that nicely. I described them to someone as a three hour episode of Fringe written by Nolan and directed by Bruckheimer with a HUGE effects budget, in text form.
Seriously action junkie big screen ka boom fuck you in the thinkymeats great fun superfast read with a couple of genuine That Did NOT Just Happen moments. I won't spoil but i will recommend these as great fun reads.
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