A review by brandonadaniels
Black Helicopters by Caitlín R. Kiernan

3.0

I loved the first entry of this trilogy, Agents of Dreamland, but this one left me a little cold. Agents was dense, but the rapid fire ideas were held together by strong characters and, in the audiobook, strong narrators. Black Helicopters is more character focused, but the characters somehow feel less distinct. I was confused frequently about the nature of the cast, whose voice as who’s, and what the characters relationships were. The narrator was great, but I think I would have preferred a multi cast production like the first one. The chapters bounce around a bit too much between characters and time periods. It felt a bit like a Burroughs cut up novel. There’s some really striking imagery here, but it gets a little muddled.