A review by jachinheckman
The Dead Mountaineer's Inn by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky

1.0

This book is frustratingly pointless. It puts you in an environment full of unlikable characters that have found themselves wrapped up in a seemingly complex mystery. Once the writer has you wondering how all of these many bizarre puzzle pieces fit together, he reveals that they don't. It is just aliens. To clarify, not complex aliens with specific powers that explain all the weird things that are going on, just all powerful, robot aliens. This book provides nothing but half a mystery, poorly developed characters, and a half-assed science fiction story.