Jason’s Reviews > Against a Dark Background > Status Update

Full of Banks' awesomely cool big ideas, but wrapped around a plot that meanders and sidesteps and almost falls down. This is one of those books I'm glad to have read, and enjoy having in my head, but found mostly annoying while reading.

Finally picking up (maybe). Such a slow starter, and with no reason to care about what happens to any of the characters. I'm a little interested now.

Grabbed the eBook so I could keep reading after I returned this to the library.

After a couple of hit-and-miss books (and a lot of time not spent reading) it's nice to be back in an Iain M. Banks book. I'm expecting great things from this one, so we'll see if it lives up to my high expectations.