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Halting State

by Charles Stross

In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. A daring bank robbery has taken place at Hayek Associates, a dot-com startup company that's just been floated on the London stock exchange. The suspects are a band of marauding orcs, with a dragon in tow for fire support, and the bank is located within the virtual reality land of Avalon Four. For... (more)

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yvette k
  • Rated 4 stars

Uhhh...I forgot to review it right after I read it, and so I had to actually go back and review the synopsis to recall which book it was.

In the end I feel positive about it; Recall a lot of the Stross humor, which I like, and will re-read it again sometime with pleasure.

Sometimes I read so very fast that the book is a positive blur...not quite compelling enough to make me slow down and absorb. That is the case here, though a re-read may change my review down the line...

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Elisabeth
  • Rated 2 stars

Seemed like a very interesting idea/concept, but the weird first person way it was written made it obnoxious to read, "you did this", or "you are feeling sad". Was just enough of a put off that I didn't finish it.

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