At 684 pages (in the ARC I had) this is not a book to be taken casually. Any selection will do Gnomon a disservice. It’s therefore hard to distil it any further and a review just risks giving a very weak impression of the real thing. Secondly, it’s a very dense book – I don’t mean it’s heavy reading, I mean that the form and content of the book is perfect, the very least it needs to be to do its job, to reshape the reader’s mind and make something new. First, it’s simply got glorious writing, plotting and superb characters. In the case of Gnomon I think there are three reasons for this. I find this is surprisingly often of true the very best books, say the ones you’d give six out of five stars to if you could.
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