The Inverted World

This was a nice interlude between books 5 and 6 of the Dark Tower. I came to it through the Verge bookclub after discovering their discussion of Foucault's Pendulum in a podcast.

I enjoyed the concepts of this novel, but I found the end quite dissatisfying because it didn't tie up the main loose end of the disparate ageing. I can't go into more without spoiling it. The characters were rather thin, but in a sense this added to the idea that the City was the main character and it kept the book short, which appealed to me after the long Dark Tower books. It reminded me a little of another book that I read in book-club mode, The Forever War by Joe Haldeman: thin characters and time distortion. Looking back at my review of that, I gave it two stars. So this fared a little better.