A review by rymdkejsaren
Rubicon Beach (Revised) by Steve Erickson

2.0

There is some beautiful prose in this book, and throughout it maintains a tinge of surreality that brings focus to the events. But the narrative is a headless chicken. I enjoyed the first part the most because then it still felt like there was a direction. That was subsequently lost, and the connections between the different events were either fleeting or deeply obscured to the point where I found it difficult to engage.

I want to give it a higher rating for some of the beautiful scenes in it, but without an overarching story upon which to hang them, they lose too much of their power.