Gun, With Occasional Music

i'm excited about this one...

ok, done. so i'm left with an overall feeling of “meh,” but when i think about specific bits of writing and/or story devices i am impressed by them individually. the whole just doesn't seem to represent the sum of the parts potentials.

so the book is a sci-fi noir detective dystopia, which has happened very successfully in the past. i think part of it is the weakness of the mystery, it's pretty easy to pick out the what really happened in the first 50 pages. also, some of the plot serves to put ticks in the sci-fi column and in the dystopia column, but does little else. there is nothing to sew the things together and as a result the story feels very shallow and disconnected.

the writing on the other hand is really nicely done. this guy has got a way with words, i wonder if he's written anything else...