Season of Skulls

I think this may be it for me and the New Management. I didn't enjoy the previous book at all, and while this one starts much more promisingly with atmospheric scene setting and character introductions, once the plot kicks in it devolves into incoherent nonsense. Perhaps it's all a clever metatextual game, where Stross is showing us what it would be like to live under a sorcerous reign of terror run by beings far beyond our comprehension via a novel full of non sequiturs, important stuff that seems to happen between sentences, random poorly illustrated motivations and a great big whimper of a climax. Or maybe it's just not a very good book.