Jam's review
The Jennifer Morgue
by Charles Stross
Jam's review
The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross
Jam's review
rating:
bookshelves:
notworthit
recommended for: people who like spy thrillers and elder gods.
Mine had a different colour I cannot be bothered to find.
So this is basically a spy thriller with chthonic beasts. If you like spy thrillers and cthonic beasts, you might like this and it does have some things to recommend it. It's funny in parts, it has some good characters, it doesn't take itself to seriously (although it's not a comedy).
But at the same time, it's not a book that I'd reread and it's one that I was pushing myself to finish.
Honestly, large parts of it dragged. Shiny new technomage jargon toys are not that interesting to me, and I don't want to spend a paragraph reading about the flashdisk in your bowtie and the wifi aerial in your bootlace.
The book is too impressed with it's own cleverness sometimes, in a way I don't actually find appealing. I liked the girlfriend, but I could have done with more of her. I liked that it didn't end up in Classic Bond Fashion, (or at least, not in the way you expected it to), but it still seemed like it wasn't wo...more
So this is basically a spy thriller with chthonic beasts. If you like spy thrillers and cthonic beasts, you might like this and it does have some things to recommend it. It's funny in parts, it has some good characters, it doesn't take itself to seriously (although it's not a comedy).
But at the same time, it's not a book that I'd reread and it's one that I was pushing myself to finish.
Honestly, large parts of it dragged. Shiny new technomage jargon toys are not that interesting to me, and I don't want to spend a paragraph reading about the flashdisk in your bowtie and the wifi aerial in your bootlace.
The book is too impressed with it's own cleverness sometimes, in a way I don't actually find appealing. I liked the girlfriend, but I could have done with more of her. I liked that it didn't end up in Classic Bond Fashion, (or at least, not in the way you expected it to), but it still seemed like it wasn't wo...more
