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A review by tresat
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
4.0
Brasyl, River of Gods, and now The Dervish House. McDonald has an awesome talent for taking already alien contemporary cultures and projecting them into a wondrous but tangible future. Istanbul itself is the most interesting character and revealed as far stranger than the omnipresent nanotech miracles. I spent a lot of time with a dictionary and Wikipedia to parse some of it, (no helpful glossary this time), but by the end of the book the swarm of unfamiliar words established such a distinct atmosphere it was worth the early difficulties.
The main action-thriller plotline(s) seems to take a little too long to get together, but the characters' own desires and lives and side-quests are just as interesting, and the finale is suitably terrific. Really good.
The main action-thriller plotline(s) seems to take a little too long to get together, but the characters' own desires and lives and side-quests are just as interesting, and the finale is suitably terrific. Really good.