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A review by house_of_scatha
Stonemouth by Iain Banks
4.0
Great book. Sharp and enjoyable even when you feel on familiar ground of Banks's work: dealing with friends, love, drugs, morality and truth versus the lies of society, the law, and (in this case), the criminal underworld.
It can't make as much impact to me as The Crow Road and Complicity --- but that is because of the age I read them and the impact on me as a reader. But this book had me hooked, and dragged me along, and slyly, at the end, although there is a denouement, all the conspiracies of the past are NOT explained in all their glory. And the nice thing is that it doesn't matter that there wasn't an explanation of every characters action and reaction.
It can't make as much impact to me as The Crow Road and Complicity --- but that is because of the age I read them and the impact on me as a reader. But this book had me hooked, and dragged me along, and slyly, at the end, although there is a denouement, all the conspiracies of the past are NOT explained in all their glory. And the nice thing is that it doesn't matter that there wasn't an explanation of every characters action and reaction.