Warren Ellis’s first novel represents everything Ellis is interested in. All the sci-fi/sex elements he is known for are very much present in this story, even more than anything else he’s written.

That’s both a strength and a flaw. If you’re really interested in those funny stories about weird sex and technology you’ll love this book. Even if you don’t, those stories are amusing to very funny.

I usually enjoy them if taken in small doses, however every other change of scene in this road story has one of those stories, and at a certain point it felt too much for me.

Not that I was disgusted or anything, I just thought there were too many, and the novelty wore off a little bit.

This is not a very long novel, so the plot is fairly simple. The characterization is well done, but at the same time I don’t think I knew these characters too well, therefore I didn’t care for them as much as I would have liked to.

The resolution of the plot was a clever twist, though I cared more about the characters resolution.

I was hoping for this to be as good as his Transmetropolitan, which seemed the closest in terms of themes and characters, and which I loved. Instead I got an entertaining story.