After reading the spectacular "Altered Carbon", I could not wait to get the second Takeshi Kovacs novel. But what is this? It never did me Took long to finish a book! The story is so boring, did it is hard to keep on reading after a few pages. First i thought, That it has to develop, but it gets worse and worser. Most characters are the same, even though They got different names it's hard to keep them apart. But the biggest disappointment is the so called Takeshi Kovacs character! This is not the same guy I read about in the first book. He got the same name, but that's all! In no way he can be Compared to the cool guy from "Altered Carbon". After this i'm not even a bit interested in reading the third novel. This is just a boring science fiction novel without the great noir style from the first book!