So, I’m nearly done reading it (no spoilers, please), and really, really like it. But, is it sci-fi?
I’m about halfway through it myself, and I’d have to vote no.
But that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
I have just started it. The tone seems a little different.
I miss Rydel though.
I read it about three months ago, when I got an advance galley to review for a magazine.
No, I wouldn’t call it SF. Everything in it is very much of today. Nothing happens in it that couldn’t conceivably happen right now.
Sure, it’s a little weird, but a lot of people have weirder realities than that. In New York, anyway.