Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin SloanMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Should a novel be timeless? Does it bother you to see your plot revolve around, say, Apple, or LucasFilm, or Starbucks? Because it kind of bothers me. And while the book is thematically based around bridging the gap between the new and the old, a brand name on a page still breaks the fourth wall for me.
Set in Silicon Valley, MP24HBS is at the very least sipping the high tech Kool-Aid. Google is central to the plot, and I struggled to care about their internal staffing hierarchies and the computing power of their algorithms or whatever. It's a breezy read, and skips between high-gloss locations on a fairly thin plot. The fact that there seems to be a major plot hole really didn't bother me that much, because the stakes were low to begin with.
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