Sunday, 5 April 2020

Jonathan Pinnock - The Riddle of the Fractal Monks


Rating: 4/5

Review:
Another very entertaining instalment

I have enjoyed this series and this, the third, is another very entertaining instalment.

The plot is cheerfully bonkers. Frankly, I don’t know how to begin to explain it but it involves mysterious and violent monks, fractal geometry, a pair of alpacas, some of the usual enjoyably silly but rather exciting episodes of Dan and Dot being in mortal danger (usually having put themselves there) and so on. It’s great fun and very well written and structured with the rather hapless Dan narrating while the women do the brainwork. Dot’s business partner Ali is on fine, scathing and abusive form (I laughed out loud more than once at her comments) and all in all it’s a terrific, cheering read especially in such troubled times.

These books perhaps aren’t utter comic masterpieces but they are very amusing and just immense fun to read. Warmly recommended.

(My thanks to Farrago for an ARC via NetGalley.)

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