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A review by tartancrusader
The Bloodline Feud by Charles Stross
1.0
Wow, this was a mess. It seems to me like the author couldn't decide which plot elements to include so he just included ALL of them. And the MacGuffins were just clunky beyond belief, not to mention arbitrarily ill-defined.
If the cut and thrust of High Finance and Mercantilism is your thing, then you'll probably enjoy this but for me it was dull, dull, dull. It was only my newly-formed intention to try much harder to refrain from abandoning books that kept me going on this one. I certainly won't be reading any more of this series but am willing to give the author's Science Fiction a try. Incidentally, I've seen some describe this as Science Fiction; don't be fooled - it isn't. It's parallel worlds Fantasy in which the worlds themselves were probably the best thing about the book.
If the cut and thrust of High Finance and Mercantilism is your thing, then you'll probably enjoy this but for me it was dull, dull, dull. It was only my newly-formed intention to try much harder to refrain from abandoning books that kept me going on this one. I certainly won't be reading any more of this series but am willing to give the author's Science Fiction a try. Incidentally, I've seen some describe this as Science Fiction; don't be fooled - it isn't. It's parallel worlds Fantasy in which the worlds themselves were probably the best thing about the book.