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A review by artemisia_vulgaris
Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
This is a thriller hard-boiled in an adamant pot, a science fiction idea unfolding as a wisecracking private eye novel, in which the violence is point-by-point and the sex all implication. It’s surprisingly romantic, occasionally very funny, and loomingly dystopian. I loved it, couldn’t stop reading it, and was sorry when it reached a perfect conclusion.
The narrator kept failing to hit quite the right emphasis, though the prose is so good you get there anyway. Probably most English-speakers don’t care about the brutal mispronunciation of Cherssonisos (it’s should’ve been Kher-SAW-kneess-oss) but failing to land the last line is criminal.
The narrator kept failing to hit quite the right emphasis, though the prose is so good you get there anyway. Probably most English-speakers don’t care about the brutal mispronunciation of Cherssonisos (it’s should’ve been Kher-SAW-kneess-oss) but failing to land the last line is criminal.