I was looking for a new sci-fi read this month, a palette cleanser between all the fantasy I’ve been reading lately. I have Amazon Prime, so when I got my Amazon First Reads email this month I was more than intrigued to find Meru being offered as one of the reads. I was also convinced to download this book because I saw it was a Nebula and Hugo award finalist, and the books I’ve seen previously crowned winners by these contests never fail to disappoint. Intrigued, I started to read.