The book contains even more cliches, needless repetition, and superficially “profound” moments than Nexus and Crux combined (it doesn’t help that Apex is considerably longer than both previous novels).Īn additional frustration is that Naam expands his story far beyond the initial core characters that carried him through the first two books. Apex is a choppy, terse narrative that also becomes bloated with its own linguistic heft. I wouldn’t have thought it possible that the third book in a successful series could contain worse writing than the previous two, but Naam proved me wrong.
While Naam has created a vibrant speculative landscape full of tantalizing and terrifying futuretech, he has also failed to temper his obnoxious penchant for dull, sloppy prose. I’ve enjoyed this series and would recommend it to pretty much anyone interested in near-future scifi, but I have to admit that Apex was a rather lukewarm finale. Ramex Naam’s Nexus Arc has become wildly popular since I read the first installment back in early 2013.
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