One of Us by Craig DiLouie

 

Made it about 250 out of about 400 pages, tapped out. Kinda dull and dreary and mostly lifeless, two murders felt boring, and and oncoming revolution felt tedious; and the tension between wildly implausible "science" and grittily realistic social fiction led to a Total Disbelief Collapse. Also the sound of axes on stones was the loudest thing in the book.