mikavon 's review for:

Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

1.0

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Vacillating between 1 and 2 stars on this but I really hated every moment of it so I find it hard to justify giving it 2 stars... The prose was clever, sure. But the story, characters, plot, setting, everything else was garbage. 
Basically a road trip novel (which I already hate--plots where the characters are shuttled between set pieces that have no real bearing on one another), but with annoying characters and a nonsensical world. I think it was trying to be funny? It's the kind of humour John Scalzi would like--probably why there's a blurb from him plastered on the cover. 

This author has written some of my favourite books, but he's also written a lot of books that I greatly dislike. He's also written a lot of average books that I don't care about one way or another. 
I don't know how reliable his name is for me anymore.