White Swan by Jason Stoddard

The story is near-future, a future that seems authoritarian in the quest to save the world, bad things for a good cause.

One of the joys of this story was the hook. From the start it's unclear what is exactly happening, and what has exactly happened, but it's something intriguing. So we follow Lili, trying to understand what she's doing. And the story heads off further than I'd expected after reading the first section, pleasingly taking the plot on and on. When everything is finally explained it's not a disappointment and it doesn't end with a quick reveal and a TADA! but instead carries on. Let's the protagonist try and win.

The writing is good all the way through, nicely poetic and evoking the near future in all it's hope and despair. Believable and cool.

Really enjoyable.