Jon Taylor’s Reviews > The Peripheral > Status Update

Occurs to me that I’m enjoying the form - short, snappy chapters filled with short snappy paragraphs and sentences. Lots of dialogue so it’s pacy. Reminds me a bit of James Ellroy.

This is a proper thriller now. Once you get the rhythms of his prose and begin to understand the tech, things get clearer. Fascinating idea - a conversation with someone from the past but they don’t know you’re from the future.

The imagination and depth of detail in it is boggling - the Lego piece that changed shape for example. And
the murder method. Now I understand that we have 2 narratives, one happening concurrently but 70 years in the future to the other, things are beginning to clear.

Something’s going on. It’s very much a ‘drop you in the middle of it’ narrative. And then I find one of the narratives is happening 70 years ahead of the other. Except in that narrative they can travel back in time… some stuff about alternate reality, a war, celebrity assassins?.. hope I can make sense of it all…