![]() ![]() Pretty much anything can happen, so you can’t make educated guesses about what might occur next. the novel wants very much to be propelled by dramatic tension and a sense of jeopardy, but there can’t really be any when a plot proceeds as this one does, essentially from one deus ex machina to the next. Things are repeatedly explained, unnecessarily. Progress is routinely halted by sketchy Wikipedia-style exposition-dumps about tidal flow or behavioural economics, or a character asking herself a whole page or two of questions about what just happened, or vague disquisitions on the meaning of identity. ![]() Gnomon, however, reads like the first draft of what might have been a tighter 400-page book rather than a rambling 700-pager. A novel can be awfully long without being long-winded. ![]()
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