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A review by mschlat
Black Helicopters by Caitlín R. Kiernan
3.0
A nice enough place, but I wouldn't want to live there....
This is highly abstruse and allusion filled fantasy/science fiction, with narrative time jumps and Cthulhu monsters and spycraft (which doesn't help the clarity). Except for a few short chapters, I appreciated the atmospheric feel and prose style, but I quickly accepted I wasn't getting to get much of the way of explanation, clear character motivations, or even plot closure. That's okay for a short work like this, but I couldn't handle this in a longer novel.
This is highly abstruse and allusion filled fantasy/science fiction, with narrative time jumps and Cthulhu monsters and spycraft (which doesn't help the clarity). Except for a few short chapters, I appreciated the atmospheric feel and prose style, but I quickly accepted I wasn't getting to get much of the way of explanation, clear character motivations, or even plot closure. That's okay for a short work like this, but I couldn't handle this in a longer novel.