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A review by jefecarpenter
The Mirror Thief by Martin Seay
3.0
I thought this book had big promise, but I'm finally giving up, on page 324....!
The author has magnificent talents of description and dialogue that can put you directly in Atlantic City with casino sharks, or amongst the mysteries of the glass guild hierarchy in 16th century Venice... and it's a twisting weave of stories that includes the fringes of metaphysics. I thought I had found a new David Mitchell, and maybe a more readable version, as well. But he just just kept hammeriing away at a long bad trip between two sharks who can't keep my interest, leading out into an implausible meeting in the desert... that seems like he may have suddenly thought he should sprinkle some Carmac McCarthy in there. It doesn't work.
Page 324. That pretty much tells it all.
What a disapointment.
The author has magnificent talents of description and dialogue that can put you directly in Atlantic City with casino sharks, or amongst the mysteries of the glass guild hierarchy in 16th century Venice... and it's a twisting weave of stories that includes the fringes of metaphysics. I thought I had found a new David Mitchell, and maybe a more readable version, as well. But he just just kept hammeriing away at a long bad trip between two sharks who can't keep my interest, leading out into an implausible meeting in the desert... that seems like he may have suddenly thought he should sprinkle some Carmac McCarthy in there. It doesn't work.
Page 324. That pretty much tells it all.
What a disapointment.