Review: Great North Road

Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

It's good, I won't deny that. The idea of the story, with a mystery murder that in spite of the all-encompassing surveillance technology is unknowable. The victim, a clone that has hundreds of other running around and all of whom are accounted for. The crime scene, where all of the camera-like devices and detectors have been shut down. The method of murder, a weird 5-bladed knife. All of it points to a monster that until know was considered only a figment of the only survivor a previous similar incident.

It all works, it all plays out quite well, mostly logically. But man it's long. It's not like there are wasted words, but there are a few sections that go into details that, while interesting in and of themselves, can be glossed rather than spelled out.

Cut the middle 200 pages, this would be edging 5 stars for me. That said, this one will still stick with me for a bit.

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