This is the first Gary Gibson book I have read. It starts well with an augmented protagonist living off the grid in Edinburgh. The story is excellent, but I found that it was the writing style that put me off. Sometimes I had not even realised an action scene was taking place, it was so plodding. For example, when Kendrick falls out of a window during a fight, I only picked up on this halfway through the paragraph of him falling. Such rereads to check what had happened occurred frequently. On a couple of occasions my internal voice screeched to a halt when an unfamiliar word was used, for commonplace things, such as one used to describe clouds. All in all, I just could not persevere.