![]() Nicholas is not an outright ass as Nakota, but he is still insufferable in his indecision and passivity. If yes, it is particularly troubling that she’s such an asshole because it would make her the only POC in the entire book. Nakota is simply horrible and I am not sure whether she is supposed to be a POC (her name sounds vaguely Japanese to me, and it’s also the name of a Native American tribe, but one character also mentions that it’s not her real name, so maybe she’s a white person affecting some kind of “exotic flair”). Hopefully that was due to the fact that I got an early copy.)Īnd I definitely didn’t like neither Nicholas nor Nakota. (It also didn’t help that the text seemed littered with OCR errors. It did get better or I got more used to it, but I never really loved it. The stream-of-consciousness narration was confusing and uncomfortable and I pretty much hated it. For the first few chapters of The Cipher, I was seriously considering whether I should just quit the book right then and there.
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