Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan

 


Well, this was a bit of a disappointment. Not *horrible*, but a bit bland. and with stakes that in the end seemed abruptly lower--in the sense the POV character's life wasn't really in danger--than they really were. Also, the author solved the problem of mobile phones by setting the novel in like 1994, which I would have been happier about if it had been explicit, if I hadn't had to piece it together from clues and hints scattered throughout.

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