A review by bex_knighthunterbooks
Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchinson

Did not finish book. Stopped at 24%.

This has a really interesting and refreshing setting of a future Europe fractured into microstates. This is a spy thriller in theory, but I found the main perspective was too passive so I don't feel I really got to see the politics or the machinations up to this stage in the book. The structure also feels like loosely connected stories, which is not a format that works well for me - it felt like I was losing all reading momentum. I did enjoy all the discussions of the formations of different states, and bureaucracy involved in navigating cross-European travel, but I was missing a hook of character or plot to keep my interest in the wider story.