Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Author: Robin Sloan
Genre: Mystery
Publication date: October 2012
Book description: The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and into the aisles of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, but after a few days on the job, Clay discovers that the store is more curious than either its name or its gnomic owner might suggest. The customers are few, and they never seem to buy anything; instead, they "check out" large, obscure volumes from strange corners of the store. Suspicious, Clay engineers an analysis of the clientele's behavior, seeking help from his variously talented friends, but when they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, they discover the bookstore's secrets extend far beyond its walls.
Thoughts:
IT was a slow-moving story. There is very little plot storyline, or at least it did not feel as it was at the forefront. There is a plot has a few sprinkles of the overall mystery that turned out to be not what most of the players expected and it was really underwhelming. So that felt like a good reality check.
The main character, unfortunately, did not capture me. But still, it was a good time while we saw him struggle through his "hardships" such as fear of losing his job, issues about the relationship between his friends, etc.
Once he started to try to solve the mystery overall it got so much better. So I really liked better the mystery-solving mainly because it was through puzzles.
But there was something that simply felt off.
It was simply ok. But I do not plan to reread this.
I picked this book as part of the Buzzwordathon, it does have afterall numbers in the title.
Genre: Mystery
Publication date: October 2012
Book description: The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and into the aisles of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, but after a few days on the job, Clay discovers that the store is more curious than either its name or its gnomic owner might suggest. The customers are few, and they never seem to buy anything; instead, they "check out" large, obscure volumes from strange corners of the store. Suspicious, Clay engineers an analysis of the clientele's behavior, seeking help from his variously talented friends, but when they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, they discover the bookstore's secrets extend far beyond its walls.
Thoughts:
IT was a slow-moving story. There is very little plot storyline, or at least it did not feel as it was at the forefront. There is a plot has a few sprinkles of the overall mystery that turned out to be not what most of the players expected and it was really underwhelming. So that felt like a good reality check.
The main character, unfortunately, did not capture me. But still, it was a good time while we saw him struggle through his "hardships" such as fear of losing his job, issues about the relationship between his friends, etc.
Once he started to try to solve the mystery overall it got so much better. So I really liked better the mystery-solving mainly because it was through puzzles.
But there was something that simply felt off.
It was simply ok. But I do not plan to reread this.
I picked this book as part of the Buzzwordathon, it does have afterall numbers in the title.
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