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Had to return at 62%

Dnf

I really like Mick Herron but this just isn’t holding my interest

Viel innerer Monolog 🧐

entertaining but doesn’t pack the same punch and humour as slough house books.

Some Goodreads on the plane to LAX 🤣

Reread

Feels like Mick is just getting his voice in this novel which was his first. Interested to see where this series goes !

Ok, this is not what I thought it was. Not bad, just different. Something just happened that really surprised me and I don't know what to think.

Good so far

Must read to better understand “Ironic Floss” ~ “Indifferent Unscapes” and the “Twilight World of Expedient Operations”. Getting better with every page!

Witty. Real. Love to hate characters. Hate to lose others.
So I saw Emma Thompson on The Graham Norton Show and immediately downloaded novel. The character she plays is only tangential in this 1st novel. PLUS “Slow Horses” since it’s by the same author. (Different Series)

Really loving the book, but it is baffling that I’m 70% of the way through and Zoe has only made an appearance of roughly 6 pages and then disappeared again

Dang

Good, of course. We are watching the TV series concurrently which is great.

Had to start this before starting to watch the TV serialisation as the Slough House books do differ from the TV series

I was beginning to wonder if Zoe would show up for more than two lines!

DNF halfway through, so bored

On discovering a fire, the instructions began, shout Fire and try to put it out. It was useful, heart-of-the-matter advice, and could be extended almost indefinitely in any direction. On discovering your husband’s guests are arseholes, shout Arseholes and try to put them out.

😂

SO GOOD CANT WAIT FOR THE SERIES

just finished this spy thriller and enjoyed the story. I do feel like there could have been more of a wrap up.. but the book would make a fun movie to watch.

Second read. Only gave it 2 stars first time.

“He had never really lost his youth; he’d just kept it in a small room off the landing.”

Quirky and sarcastic. I like it!

‘A Zoë Boehm Thriller’, the cover says. So far, Zoë Boehm has appeared twice in this book, for a total of about five pages. Curious!

Very good. Lot of “outer edges” coming together in the plot.

But remembering him now, remembering he’d never grow old at all, she wanted to cry, or shout, or hurt someone. Larkin, she thought. He’d always been fond of Philip Larkin. Give me your arm, old toad; Help me down Cemetery Road . . . He’d been helped down Cemetery Road, all right, but it hadn’t been time for him to go, and he hadn’t expected such help.
[From [author:Philip Larkin|64716] "Toads Revisited."]

Outside the window bright settlements flashed into view, then lost themselves in the dark nowhere that swallowed up the past. This was a well-known effect of travelling at night: you felt nostalgic for snug, safe places you’d never visited, and never would.

For two weeks she could lie in this administrative limbo, suspended in a pause between acts. All she had to do was whatever she was told, which would be nothing more taxing than drinking this, swallowing that; trying to get some sleep now, dear. Limbo was for those denied heaven. It was also a loophole for those otherwise destined for hell.

She couldn’t believe what she was hearing herself say; it was like watching somebody have an accident there was nothing you could do to prevent. The damage they did now would be with them long after they’d both pretended to forget it. Later they’d call it clearing the air, but it had more in common with biological warfare.