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The arch cynicism and laid-back style go nicely with the poetic language and the sometimes trippy imagery to create a dreamy, detached feel. However, there's a fine line between a book told convincingly from the point of view of an unimpressed magician who's seen it all before, and one that makes you wonder why you wasted your tea-break reading it, and unfortunately this book strays across that line at times. M literally or metaphorically shrugs at the end of a sequence of events and as a reader, it can be frustrating. It's full of anti-climaxes, there is little urgency even when a fight's going on, events are summarised sometimes which occasionally seems appropriate laziness on M's part but at other times feels disappointing, as though it's describing something that's happening a couple of blocks away, rather than to the main character who you (the reader) are with.

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