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Places In The Darkness by Chris Brookmyre
Nov. 9th, 2019 04:39 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
”This is as close to a city without crime as mankind has ever seen.”
Ciudad de Cielo is the ‘city in the sky’, a space station where hundreds of scientists and engineers work in Earth’s orbit, building the colony shop that will one day take humanity to the stars. When a mutilated body is found on the CDC, the eyes of the world are watching.
Top-of-the-class investigator, Alice Blake, is sent from Earth to team up with CDC’s Freeman - a jaded cop with more reason that most to distrust such planet side interference. As the death toll climbs and factions aboard the station become more and more fractious, Freeman and Blake will discover clues to a conspiracy that threatens not only their own lives, but the future of humanity itself.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Chris Brookmyre’s standalone novel is a clever mix of SF and hard boiled noir with a setting akin to the Western frontier and strong pacing. The world building is great, bringing in tech, politics, economics and social commentary and I liked the different factions at play with their respective agendas but Freeman and Blake felt a bit stock at times and some of the emotional revelations in the final quarter weren’t earned.
Ciudad de Cielo is the ‘city in the sky’, a space station where hundreds of scientists and engineers work in Earth’s orbit, building the colony shop that will one day take humanity to the stars. When a mutilated body is found on the CDC, the eyes of the world are watching.
Top-of-the-class investigator, Alice Blake, is sent from Earth to team up with CDC’s Freeman - a jaded cop with more reason that most to distrust such planet side interference. As the death toll climbs and factions aboard the station become more and more fractious, Freeman and Blake will discover clues to a conspiracy that threatens not only their own lives, but the future of humanity itself.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Chris Brookmyre’s standalone novel is a clever mix of SF and hard boiled noir with a setting akin to the Western frontier and strong pacing. The world building is great, bringing in tech, politics, economics and social commentary and I liked the different factions at play with their respective agendas but Freeman and Blake felt a bit stock at times and some of the emotional revelations in the final quarter weren’t earned.
