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Titanium Noir lives up to the "noir" in the title.

I'm stuck in the read-everything-Mick-Herron-has-written-especially-if-it-is-linked-to-Slough-House trap. If you're also in this trap, you'll read this no matter what I say. So all I'll say is that is as well written as Herron's other stuff and adds to the overall story.

It seems there are a lot of books out these days that involve libraries or book stores. This one has a library that is wildly different from all of them. Not as fast moving as some of the other stories from Mark Lawrence, but still compelling and I'm very interested in reading the next one when it comes out.

This is a terrific follow-up to Children of Time.

Adrian Tchaikovsky is great at writing characters that think differently from how you or I might think  but who you can still grow attached to.

Like all of the other books of his I've read, In this one, he managed to find four or five major science fiction ideas I've never come across before.

And this book has octopuses!

The one story featuring Jackson Lamb and Molly Doran make this a must-read for Slow Horses fans.

The great find for me were the stories with Zoe Boehm. I've now got a whole set of novels to track down and go through.

<spoiler>Mick Herron seems to prefer taking you somewhere that you weren't expecting to go</spoiler>

I thoroughly enjoyed this story of a rising academic's field studies of the high and low faeries on a remote Nordic island. Anyone pining for a follow-up to Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell will likely find this to be satisfying.  

This book widely diverges from the TV series, but it was still a good engaging read.

I think it's significant that this is the first book I have finished in a long time.

It's good, serious science fiction. With interesting thinking about where our algorithmically controlled social media future might be heading.

It's space war, but not like any space war story I've ever read. Definitely not "rah, rah, go humans!" stuff.

It's not one I'd recommend for every sci-fi fan. But if you're into Philip K. Dick or Harlan Ellison, this is worth a look.