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A review by julcoh
The Peripheral by William Gibson
3.0
Gibson is one of my favorite authors. I enjoy the run-on, constant world building and the way he weaves his stories together.
This one starts out slow, and confusing. Like being dropped into a fever dream. The plot and true nature of the characters becomes clear about a third of the way through, and the story really picks up from there. I thoroughly enjoyed some of the time bending aspects of inter-multiverse information transfer.
While the concepts are interesting and the settings and throwaway details are superb, the story is a bit lackluster. Also a trope in many of Gibson's novels, but I felt the denouement and book ending were much weaker than the middle and climax of the story.
All that being said, I couldn't put it down.
This one starts out slow, and confusing. Like being dropped into a fever dream. The plot and true nature of the characters becomes clear about a third of the way through, and the story really picks up from there. I thoroughly enjoyed some of the time bending aspects of inter-multiverse information transfer.
While the concepts are interesting and the settings and throwaway details are superb, the story is a bit lackluster. Also a trope in many of Gibson's novels, but I felt the denouement and book ending were much weaker than the middle and climax of the story.
All that being said, I couldn't put it down.