Huh, maybe I should give the others a go then. I read the first two last year and thought they were awful

Red them all last year, really enjoyed them. Can’t wait for the next one later this year

The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis, it drew me for the first 70 or so pages, then it’s pretty slow for the next 250

• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
• Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean by Morten A. Strøksnes
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Chaos Monkeys was pretty good, he came across as an asshole but still enjoyed it