Nicolas Dickner's Six Degrees Of Freedom

Six Degrees of Freedom follows Lisa, Éric and Jay over many years. And while Lisa and Éric are childhood friends, Jay is more of an outsider and is only connected to them because of their "experiments" and her work with the RCMP.

To be honest, this book just wasn't my cup of tea. While the chapters are indeed brief the book is incredibly slow-paced. I felt that the author took a too much time just to get to the main plot which was the more interesting aspect of this book and unfortunately it did not unfold until the very last chapters of the book. Instead the majority of the book was devoted to the technical elements of the shipping and container industry in addition to the backgrounds of not just the three protagonist but also to the backgrounds of everyone they interact with.
However, the execution of the story didn't do the story justice in my opinion. Lisa, Jay and Éric did have the potential to be compelling characters however there just wasn't enough time devoted to their development or to let the reader care about them which made for a rather dreary and long-winded read despite not being a thick