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Title: Like refreshing a travel blog for the first 120 pages, then decent, then fizzels
Review: My take may not be quite the same as many other similarly starred reviews- this is my first Gibson book and as he is generally so well reviewed and clearly thinks big thoughts I might give him another try but this was a pretty lackluster plot that fizzled at the end with a bunch of amateur plot closures.For me the first 120 pages nearly did me in- I ended up skimming endless descriptions of London, apartments, markets, coffee houses, etc. The heroine was just compelling enough to stick with it until it gained some momentum with the introduction of an interesting character... only to lose it again and stumble into a rambling face plant. One particular scene involving effigies of the Michelin man had me doing double takes as the least believable, most melodramatic literary moment in recent memory.I stumbled though but largely because I was trapped in China with nothing else to read (or buy.
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