A review by fleshemoji
Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi

3.0

I feel like there were some really interesting ideas here, in the way the whole concept of the afterlife is utilised, that could really have done with being explored, honestly in favour of the stale trope of women detectives using any means necessary to advance in a job that doesn't care for them, which... I rather like my fantasy/SF either a bit lighter on the shitty reality of my actual lived experience or you know, give me some decent commentary on it if I'm stuck in the same hellish landscape as real life.

Alas, Rajaniemi doesn't go there, and this was neither memorable nor really worth recommending, and certainly a far cry from the absolute gem that the Jean le Flambeur trilogy is.