I said I'd grab this at some point, and I did, and I'm glad I read it. It wobbles some through the middle, and it suffers from different plausibility problems than the book it's a sequel to did, but it's a very readable book. Still very up with people, still very down on social media, but that consistency isn't a foolish hobgoblin, here. Some of the "futuristic" tech and internet stuff here is dated in the way that a five year old novel can be, but the point and meaning are solid and clear, here. Everything resolves, and the ending is a thing of joy.
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A Very Simple Crime by Grant Jerkins
This was not a very good novel. One of the narrators is ... not so much an unreliable narrator as just an utter scumball, the other is so ...
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So, this was a book that I almost stopped reading a couple-three times. It's not *bad*, exactly, but it's a weird dissonant tonal ...
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It's Scalzi being Scalzi. His books are immensely readable--witty and quippy and sparkling and poppy--and this is him, at his Scalzies...
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My brother-in-law lent this to us, with a strong recommendation, and after enjoying One Last Thing Before I Go greatly, a couple-few year...

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