✍️ Written by: Ian M. Banks
🏷️ Genre: Scf-fi / fantasy
🗓️ Published: 04 September 2008
📄 Pages: 514
🧐 My rating: ★☆☆☆☆ (1 star)
The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks or military action.
The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought.
The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a burnt-out case. But not even its machine intelligence could see the horrors in his past.
I just couldn't get into this one. The story feels disjointed and weird. I persevered until half way through chapter 9 (about 60% of the way through the book), but I couldn't go any further.
I think I need a break of the Culture series, so I'm gonna put this one away and maybe come back to it in the future.
Want more?
So you've read this post and you're still not satisfied? Ok then, here's some other stuff for you to do: