buttonandneedle 's review for:

Spook Street by Mick Herron

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I enjoy this series enough to keep reading it, but the casual misogyny and outdated views that I think we're supposed to believe come from the characters are sometimes a bit much. It doesn't feel like they're coming from the characters, but permeate the entire book. The characters are more archetype than fully realized people. The books are set in pretty much present day, but there's something about them that seems dated.