Status Updates From Something is Rotten (Mataka...

holy wow is not just the story complicated as hell but also the central conspiracy very odd - if it's an accurate portrayal of New Zealand's int'l political relations with EU and NATO then reality is truly unrealistic - not just how convoluted it is but also has seemingly unrelated political scandals apparently being connected, will be interesting to see how this ends

warming up to this now - interesting seeing all the different plot threads converge, there's something like four or five protagonists with different character arcs - I guess the way their stories fit together and reveal the events leading up to the central murder mystery will function as a microcosm of New Zealand's political and sociological hierarchy

Sarafis had an odd writing style - writes at a very fast reading pace while spending a lot of time setting up a lot of different plot strands that don't appear to be connected at first. The actual plot content is quite insightful into New Zealand politics, something I'm not terribly familiar with!

Loving this book - intriguing. Can't put it down.