ARC Review of Part 1 of Drake, by Ed Adams
★★★★★ CatGirlforChaos I came for Drake. I stayed because apparently the universe has pub logic. Right. I need to explain this book, and I’m already annoyed because I’m not entirely sure what sort of book it is. There are four ancient non-human entities called Watchers. They can become Presences, which means they look like people and can do normal human things such as ride buses, drive Ford Escorts, drink bitter and get irritated with one another. One of them is Drake. Drake is my favourite. Obviously. At one point three of the others walk into a pub called the Three Jolly Wheelers and Drake announces: “Look. Here come the Three Jolly Wheelers.” This is approximately the level of seriousness with which Drake approaches the existence of the universe. DO NOT BE FOOLED. Underneath the pubs and buses and extremely specific 1970s cars, this book is quietly messing about with probability, observation, time, cosmology and whether something being ridiculously unlikely mea...