Surtac wrote:

starexplorer wrote:

Anyway, not bad. I see why people like it, and why my friend gave it to me. Not sure I would recommend it, unless someone was considering reading it already. Its not River of Gods, for example. 

Funny you should mention that.  I see McDonald has just released his latest book, which looks like it might be another relatively short work in a new setting for him.  It's possibly another YA coming of age tale a la his earlier Planesrunner sequence.

I might slip it into my reading plan before starting McAuley's Loss Protocol.

I've just finished a re-read of Le Carre's Karla trilogy, ending with Smiley's People.  It's fascinating to see just how much those books have influenced later works in other genres, from Dave Hutchinson's Fractured Europe near-future SF dystopia to Mick Herron's Slow Horses contemporary dysfunctional spies to John Birmingham's Axis of Time alternative history.

 

I must read those Le Carre’s!