Cage of Souls

I binged all of Adrian Tchaikovsky's other books that I've read but I'm dropping this one halfway through (still a few hundred pages, like his other works, this one is not short). The world building is interesting but the dry narration leaves me...dry, and so far there is only a glimmer of other interesting characters. Maybe I'm missing out, but there's a lot of other reading I want to get to.

Miserable. Unsurprising I suppose for a book set (mainly) in an oppressive prison in a dying Earth. But still, pretty miserable.