I felt like Alice falling down the rabbit hole and the more I read, the more deeply I feel in love with the book.Īt over 700 pages it took me a while to read, but when I got to the last 20% I didn’t want the book to end. From the moment I read the first sentence I was hooked. Pitched as “a mind-bending Borgesian puzzle box of identity, meaning and reality in which the solution steps sideways as you approach it”, it features: a detective who finds herself investigating the very society she believes in, urged on by a suspect who may be an assassin or an ally, hunting through the dreams of a torture victim in search of the key to something she does not yet understand a banker who is pursued by a shark that swallows Fortune 500 companies Saint Augustine’s jilted mistress who reshapes the world with miracles a refugee grandfather turned games designer who must remember how to walk through walls or be burned alive by fascists and a sociopath who falls backwards through time in order to commit a murder.īook Worm’s Thoughts: I love a novel with a twisted timeline and a story that messes with your head, and boy does this book do that. Synopsis from Goodreads: Gnomon, which took Harkaway more than three years to complete, is set in a world of ubiquitous surveillance. This ARC was provided by Random House UK (via NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review. Book worm is getting us back on track with our blog schedule with a book that might be good enough to break my reading slump.
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