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Love at first sight. Wham bang illicit date with the ma'am. My kind of balls-out romance novel. Content warning: historical detail may contain disheartening resonance for modern Greeks

“I was used to being an outsider.

There’s a trick to it. To be an outsider means to be connected to the inside somehow. It’s a dialectic, or taijitu—the symbol beloved by kung-fu weirdoes and van art aficionados, with the white spot in the black fish, and vice versa. An outsider is more than a stranger, less than a friend. We cannot help but be inside everywhere. And I was headed in deeper than I’d ever been.”

Cool AF genre hack: occult murder mystery starring antisocial crust punks

Magical, though caving seems undescribable. Gonna have to carve out some quality time for this bad boy.

Thorough, human though dispassionate and densely written like his essays. Warm and becoming, unlike his reviews.

Right, so that's clearly a monster of a book, if more admirable than enjoyable. Doesn't seem right though that the Inspector is willing to engage in magical thinking, despite the many layers of reference.

Have learnt many new words. Involuted. Cartilaginous. Etc.

Sort of disappointed following the first chapter's brilliant prose. His Greece stuff is OK, I suppose, but Kyriakos is an obnoxious smartass like all other narrators, it seems, and the characters surrounding the Inspector are mouthpieces and very mouthy indeed. Also, how come the Bat-Computer is geared towards semantic analysis?

It's started to feel like a book of short stories retooled into a novel, but it pulls.