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A review by sworthen
The Shambling Guide to New York City by Mur Lafferty
3.0
An engaging and absorbing read, but there are more problems with this book the more I think about it.* The prose is excellent, so I have high expectations that in the long run, her plot-point consistency will catch up with it. There was a lot of world crammed into an otherwise fairly focused novel - a nice bit of real-worldlike messiness which led to stray ends here and there.
* [Lots of major spoilers, including of the ending, in this next paragraph!] The sexual exploitation sequence. Was no one concerned their CR relations hire had vanished and now needed replacing? How did Wesley really get that job, given how uncompelling he was? Was his head actually murdered? A pity that the "real" bad guys are so two-dimensional. I was expecting Lucy to come in and take over the police as her method of power; that aspect of her wasn't even mentioned in that sequence. I never did understand what Phil was doing with the train and why it was useful. The poor abused zombies!
* [Lots of major spoilers, including of the ending, in this next paragraph!] The sexual exploitation sequence. Was no one concerned their CR relations hire had vanished and now needed replacing? How did Wesley really get that job, given how uncompelling he was? Was his head actually murdered? A pity that the "real" bad guys are so two-dimensional. I was expecting Lucy to come in and take over the police as her method of power; that aspect of her wasn't even mentioned in that sequence. I never did understand what Phil was doing with the train and why it was useful. The poor abused zombies!