While reading I often listen to a Spotify playlist. In this case ‘Drifting Through Space.’ This book made me look forward to the Spotify ads.

Barely one-dimensional characters that say a great deal and do very little. A bizarre plot that didn’t really go anywhere at all (at least nowhere interesting) that could have been explored thoroughly in fifty pages (at the most).

If I hadn’t already read, and somewhat enjoyed, the previous nine entries in the Culture series I would have tapped out of this one well before the one-hundred page mark.

I’ve taken nothing away from this read whatsoever. A thief of time. The reason the Kindle has a ‘remove this book’ option.