A review by jessica_patient
The Business by Iain Banks

3.0

The premise of this book sounds great - a business that has been running for thousands of years, and now want to own a country so they can have a UN seat. It starts great and pulls you in to the story but then it starts to go down hill - the ending is rushed, way too many characters - yes a novel can have a cast of thousands but we don't want to know all of their names, too much talking and not enough showing. More could have been done with the first person narrative. There were parts that were repeating as if the reader might forget.

But I liked the writing style - I read it all the way to the end and the premise was intriguing. The start of the novel is great but there is alot of build-up - either the novel needed to have been longer or the beginning need to be sliced and diced. I really enjoyed the background about the 'Business.'