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A review by unevendays
Inscape by Louise Carey
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
4.25
I had previously read and very much enjoyed The City of Steel and Silk and The House of War and Witness, co-written by Louise Carey, so when a solo novel popped up for preorder I didn't look too hard at it - just hit the pre-order button. It wasn't at all what I was expecting - Inscape is a smart, near future thriller set after a post-apocalyptic event that have left London controlled by corporations, with their own territories and law enforcement.
Tanta is a ward of InTech, one of these corporations, and she lives to provide value to her corp as an Agent of their enforcement agency, until a mission takes her into hostile territory. She's assigned a partner, an older, brilliant engineer called Cole who has had an accident with a memory wipe machine and doesn't remember a lot of his recent past. The two of them together are the only people who can solve this particular problem.
Tanta and Cole are both engaging characters, and Cole's more cynical outlook plays well with Tanta's internalisation of the corporation values. Definitely keen to pick up the next book in this series to find out what happens next!
Tanta is a ward of InTech, one of these corporations, and she lives to provide value to her corp as an Agent of their enforcement agency, until a mission takes her into hostile territory. She's assigned a partner, an older, brilliant engineer called Cole who has had an accident with a memory wipe machine and doesn't remember a lot of his recent past. The two of them together are the only people who can solve this particular problem.
Tanta and Cole are both engaging characters, and Cole's more cynical outlook plays well with Tanta's internalisation of the corporation values. Definitely keen to pick up the next book in this series to find out what happens next!