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A review by not_bender
Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford
4.0
This book follows a generally unlikable protagonist, Cley, as he heads to a remote city to investigate the evidence, and potential theft, of an item which the Master wants to use to extend his reign over all the people in the Well-Built City and beyond. Some snags occur, things go south, and Cley is on the run, captured, eventually changed, and less unlikable (though still not a saint). Then some more things happen and the book ends!
There are plentiful odd, weird, and otherwise strange passages/descriptions/events in the book, all of which did a good job in keeping my interest and making me want more. I enjoyed the story and everything pretty well, my biggest gripe is that it felt like the ending was quite rushed (to be fair, in the author's intro to the digital version of the trilogy I'm reading, he said he finished this book in a month's time after submitting the first few chapters, so that's not particularly surprising). Looking forward to the second book, which I'll be starting right about...now.
There are plentiful odd, weird, and otherwise strange passages/descriptions/events in the book, all of which did a good job in keeping my interest and making me want more. I enjoyed the story and everything pretty well, my biggest gripe is that it felt like the ending was quite rushed (to be fair, in the author's intro to the digital version of the trilogy I'm reading, he said he finished this book in a month's time after submitting the first few chapters, so that's not particularly surprising). Looking forward to the second book, which I'll be starting right about...now.