Kundo Wakes Up

Kundo Wakes Up took me a bit to get into but once I got into it I had an enjoyable experience with it. The plot takes a bit of time to develop into something you care about. It's about an artist in a dystopian world who's trying to cope with the fact his wife left him. His "waking up" is coming back to the real world and starting the search for her after grief left him basically bedridden and uncaring of the world around him. The scope of the world-building made me think this could have been part of a series and upon research, I realized that it was part of a series. The world Hossain has built felt realistic and like something that could happen in the future. That's one of the strong points of this novel.

You get some magic towards the end of the book which reminded me of The Mortality Doctrine series (by no means a bad thing, I loved that series) we get a pretty solid ending and are left with a dying world just like the beginning.