A review by relfal
The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal

2.0

Starts out mildly entertaining but bogs down and becomes overcomplicated. I don't insist on protagonists being "likeable," but this one stretched my tolerance. (In another novel she'd make a good villain.) The inclusion of a cocktail recipe for every chapter is both twee and a heavy-handed nod to The Thin Man, and by the end I was even starting to hate the dog.