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A review by queercharliereads
The Business by Iain Banks
3.0
Actually, more like 2½ stars, but I couldn't bring myself to choose a two star rating for Mr. Banks.
I kept waiting for that moment when this would turn out to be an Iain Banks novel, but it never really arrived. This is possibly the first Banks novel that I’m really disappointed in and I’ve read damn near all of them (even Canal Dreams and A Song of Stone were more interesting), but this one was just… meh.
The premise is interesting enough, yes, and right up my alley with a clandestine and sort-of secret financial empire working behind the scenes to make money since forever. But what it promises it never really delivers and I really, really missed the darker and more grim side of Banks’ storytelling that I love so much about his non-SF novels.
But I read it and I finished it, but I think this will go back on the shelf, never to be re-read.
I kept waiting for that moment when this would turn out to be an Iain Banks novel, but it never really arrived. This is possibly the first Banks novel that I’m really disappointed in and I’ve read damn near all of them (even Canal Dreams and A Song of Stone were more interesting), but this one was just… meh.
The premise is interesting enough, yes, and right up my alley with a clandestine and sort-of secret financial empire working behind the scenes to make money since forever. But what it promises it never really delivers and I really, really missed the darker and more grim side of Banks’ storytelling that I love so much about his non-SF novels.
But I read it and I finished it, but I think this will go back on the shelf, never to be re-read.