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A review by eisn
Gridlinked by Neal Asher
3.0
Enjoyable mystery in a post-singularity complex world where humanity is ruled by benevolent AI dictators. Ian Cormac is the James Bond of the future, even though there's not much spying; but plenty of action.
I disliked about half the book mainly in the narrative surrounding Pelter. To me it didn't feel like they added much in the book. Pelter didn't provide much of a distraction to Cormac either. At least Stanton was the POV for his chapters which made them a bit more bearable.
From a literary point of view (especially in the first half of the book) it feels like the author fell down in an adjective book or something and then went and tried to find obscure synonyms for each of them.
Last, but not least, while the mystery is solved adequately you're bereft of the actual resolution because the information they find is not presented at all. I've started the next book in the series and there are some hints as to what they found out but to me it feels like a very cheap cop-out at the end of this book.
I disliked about half the book mainly in the narrative surrounding Pelter. To me it didn't feel like they added much in the book. Pelter didn't provide much of a distraction to Cormac either. At least Stanton was the POV for his chapters which made them a bit more bearable.
From a literary point of view (especially in the first half of the book) it feels like the author fell down in an adjective book or something and then went and tried to find obscure synonyms for each of them.
Last, but not least, while the mystery is solved adequately you're bereft of the actual resolution because the information they find is not presented at all. I've started the next book in the series and there are some hints as to what they found out but to me it feels like a very cheap cop-out at the end of this book.