Blonde Bombshell - Tom Holt
Blonde Bombshell
Tom Holt
pub: Orbit
363 pages
Meet Lucy Pavlov, programmer extraordinaire responsible for Pavsoft, the operating system that has swept the world. She's a woman with almost everything, even a possibly illusionary unicorn. The one thing she hasn't got is all her memories.
George Stetchkin is also missing something. Mainly answers for his boss and his next drink. The question George's employer wants to know the answer to is who is stealing the banks money, from secure vaults, and how they are doing it. It’s the literal fifty trillion dollar question.
George and Lucy are not alone. In an x-files sense.
The dog-like inhabitants of Ostar have been receiving the radio waves broadcast from Earth. The Ostar society has been crippled by the music they received, unable to function as tunes and rhythm invade their brains. Seeing this as an attack, rather than just noisy neighbour they retaliate in kind, launching a smart bomb at Earth. When this attack fails for unknown reasons, Mark Two is launched. Mark Two isn't just any smart bomb, but one with a level 10 AI, capable of making decisions and, as we find, mistakes.
And that's just about where the story begins.
Blonde Bombshell delivers everything you'd want and expect from a Tom Holt book, following the interweaving plot lines of the main characters across locations on Earth and beyond. For readers new to Tom Holt, he combines brilliant, labyrinthine plots with humour that's on the nail, poking fun at the modern world, everything from Internet forums to hangovers. There’s at least a gag a page and usually a good one. And also, play a game your bound to fail and try and guess the next twist. 80% you just won't see coming. Two however are a little obvious which spoils it a bit.
If you’ve already read Tom Holt, Blonde Bombshell is more of exactly what you’ll want. If you’ve no idea who he is, and are looking for a good easy read go and pick it up.
Hopefully I'll be back to posting fairly often now I'm not stuck on a tractor for what felt like weeks at a time. Coming soon The Last Wish and The Left Hand of God.
3 comments:
Great stuff. I'e never read a Tom Holt though I have ben recommended him a number of times.
I just finished this book myself. This was my first book by Holt and while I liked it, I didn't find it as funny as I had hoped. I got the impression it wasn't his strongest work.
Holt's older work is more fantastical and arguably better for it, Djinn Rummy and Faust Among Equals being two I've read and enjoyed. Recent books have gravitated to a more mundane setting, such as the series based around J.W. Wells & Co, a firm of magicians, based in a London office block.
Have a snoop on Wikipedia, which gives a list of what each book is constructed around and pick one you like.
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