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Keeping It Real by Justina Robson

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


The one where Lila the cyborg spy with emotional issues is assigned to protect an elf rock star in post quantum-bomb multi-dimensional reality.



This is a spaghetti book. As in “throw the spaghetti at the wall an see how much of it sticks.” Except when Robson threw an elf conflict, a rock star, spy agendas, soul bonds, demons, and quantum physics, somehow it all stuck. It’s not that Robson doesn’t have cool ideas – she does. The setup alone with five alternate earth dimensions split off from one quantum disaster in Texas, but whose historical records insist they’ve always been separate? Fucking cool.



But Robson is just so frantic to get everything! Up! On the wall! That she can’t spend more than a few paragraphs on an idea, and the whole thing disintegrates into an unholy howling din of shallow science fantasy jibber-jabber. Feh.





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