A review by giant_crab86
A Song of Stone by Iain Banks

4.0

This is a truly fascinating book. Pretty much every character is a terrible person, including the protagonist, and the setting is grim grim grim, but it's so brilliantly and beautifully written that, despite the unpleasant subject matter, I immediately wanted to re-read it. The writing style has the same hallucinatory, hypnotising quality to it seen in not just Banks' The Wasp Factory but also JG Ballard's work, like The Drowned World and Crash. However horrific and nasty the things you're reading, you can't look away.