A review by mesal
Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson

adventurous mysterious

4.5

The first several chapters had me thinking that the worldbuilding was excellent, but the plot extremely average. For a mystery, the story was extremely un-mysterious: every time Lydia followed a lead, she was pointed directly towards the next place she was supposed to go. It was far too easy, and I figured I'd end this read wishing such a wonderful premise had been put to use with a different plot. Then

I learned that the bad plot was courtesy not of Eddie Robson, but of Anders Lewton

, and suddenly everything made perfect sense. If you pick this book up, please know that the storyline isn't as silly as it looks; to me this book is well worth recommending to fellow science fiction lovers.