Iain’s Reviews > People of Darkness > Status Update

Getting a little frustrating. Various people died in improbably coincidental ways. It seems like they have a shared cause. That cause is central to the mystery at hand, yet the more clues we get the more it points to what this seemed to be about in the opening chapters. Like, spoiler, how many times do we need it emphasized that the rocks encountered are heavy? The rocks that came from the uranium mine guy?

Wondering where things are going with Mary... because she's consistently a kind of unappealing character, defined by selfishness, hostility, and mockery.

Picking up quickly now.

Starting to pick up some momentum and get interesting on a character level.

This is heading into unsettling hitman with mommy issues and incongruous habits territory... which probably felt fresh in 1980, but the lingering introduction to the villain here is leaving me worried we're heading into boring cliché territory. I wonder how much this is going to be a problem with any popular crime fiction from past decades, that we've just been exposed to too much crime procedure since then.