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A review by lillanaa
Agency by William Gibson
5.0
Agency was probably one of the better science fiction books I read this year, because it was grounded in reality. That may sound odd, but actually good science fiction that is about modern day should follow modern day. This was my only main issue with his first novel in the series, but I can mostly handwave it due to it being written about 5 years ago. A time when Facebook didn't consume us (as much, at least), and there were a lot different ideas about what the future may be. Agency, however, throws all of those notions away. The County seems like something that's a fever dream compared to the reality shown here, and I love it.
Verity is a well grounded protagonist, but she isn't really the protagonist of this one, once again. With this book focusing more on Wilf and things over in weird-future-England, I'm more than intrigued as to where this series is going to go; if there'll be another. Flynne and her crew are sort of back? We get moderate resolution on what happened to them from the epilogue of the previous book, and I'm fine with the way things happened there. Conner was one of my favourites, so I'm glad to see him have a larger role.
I'm now feeling oddly comfortable with Gibson's writing style, which isn't a bad thing by any stretch. As I said in his last review, the stakes don't seem as high because of his tendency towards happy endings, but I'm not disappointed by that. With the world we live in right now, we need something that ends on a high note. That said, though, that fact didn't weigh the book down at all. There were still moments of highs and lows, as there were in [b:The Peripheral|24611819|The Peripheral|William Gibson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1574084339l/24611819._SY75_.jpg|40167043], and this one I'd say was even better.
Verity is a well grounded protagonist, but she isn't really the protagonist of this one, once again. With this book focusing more on Wilf and things over in weird-future-England, I'm more than intrigued as to where this series is going to go; if there'll be another. Flynne and her crew are sort of back? We get moderate resolution on what happened to them from the epilogue of the previous book, and I'm fine with the way things happened there. Conner was one of my favourites, so I'm glad to see him have a larger role.
I'm now feeling oddly comfortable with Gibson's writing style, which isn't a bad thing by any stretch. As I said in his last review, the stakes don't seem as high because of his tendency towards happy endings, but I'm not disappointed by that. With the world we live in right now, we need something that ends on a high note. That said, though, that fact didn't weigh the book down at all. There were still moments of highs and lows, as there were in [b:The Peripheral|24611819|The Peripheral|William Gibson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1574084339l/24611819._SY75_.jpg|40167043], and this one I'd say was even better.