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Pierce Askegren

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Afterimage has a plot so slim that it’s a wonder it doesn’t snap like an overstretched elastic band halfway through. Author Pierce Askegren is a bloody genius when it comes to writing waffle – endless conversations which go nowhere, events taking ten times longer to unfold than they should, incidental characters being introduced with reams of description – but his plot is so flimsy you’d have to be a major Buffy-head to take anything away from this but a sense of your time being wasted.

Er, no. It’s obvious who the strangers are (think Purple Rose of Cairo), which makes the rest of the book an exercise in futility. Plus you have the added delight of scenes in which bugger-all happens going on for page after page. Take a dinner at Buffy’s house: “the asparagus spears were fresh and tender, bought at a farmer’s market and poached in chicken broth. They tasted good.” Do we care? No!

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