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Very funny book with a great plot and an interesting moral dilemma. Has flashbacks and flashforwards that can be a little confusing, but really make the story deeper. Don't read the blurb before you read, as it spoiled the first few chapters for me. Definitely uses curse words, but no sex scenes so you decide if it's age appropriate. A great read and I'm looking forward to reading more of this author's work!


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Bedlam Christopher Brookmyre 9780356502137 Books Reviews

In Bedlam we see Brookmyre diverge from his usual fare of Scottish crime novels and venture into science fiction. That being said, Bedlam is still at its heart mystery fiction, with our hapless protagonist required to unravel who he is, where he is and how to take down the bad guys.

Ross Baker is computer scientist working for a shady American firm in the charming surrounds of industrial Stirling. He works hard but never seems to get ahead, he thinks his girlfriend is about to leave him and the office psychopath has just screwed him over again when he decides to help one of his colleagues, Solderburn, who is working on side project.

He consents to be scanned by Solderburn's new cobbled together scanner and wakes up inside a 1990's first person shooter called Starfire. From this point on he's on his own and has to figure out where he is, if he's still Ross Baker and how to get home.

It's not a new idea, being transported into a video game, but Brookmyre has reworked the idea and given us a story that will be a trip down nostalgia lane for anyone who grew up gaming from the late 80's onward combined with some techno thriller trappings. There's some good in-jokes and some not so subtle social commentary - Brookmyre did win a laugh from me with a reference to Daily Mail readers.

I did, however, find it a bit slow going until the last quarter of the book where the pace picked up and both the reader and Ross had a better picture of where things were going. There's also an info dump at the end of the book which is an info dump in both the literal and narrative sense. Ross gets injected with updated information on what's going on in the outside world bringing he and the reader up to date. It felt like Brookmyre was glossing over what might have been good techno-thriller material but I don't know that I can suggest another way to have worked the information into the story without revealing some of the mystery.

If you are looking for a mystery novel with a difference, if you enjoy Brookmyre's humour and you're a fan of gaming you'll enjoy Bedlam, as for the techno thiller aspects, it just doesn't move fast enough for me.
In this book, it seems Christopher Brookmyre has forgotten the audience and written to indulge himself. I loved all his earlier novels and this one was a huge disappointment.
Fast moving story for gaming geeks. It takes you into a game, literally. For those of you that plays games into the night, this can happen to you.
Cards on the table, I am a big Christopher Brookmyre fan. So much so, that I'd pretty much say if it's got his name on the front, I'd go ahead and get the book without reading the blurb, safe in the knowledge that it would be right up my street.
Unfortunately, this policy caught me out a little with this shift in genre into sci-fi, and I was a little disappointed - not being much of a sci-fi nut, or a games geek at all - when I realised what I'd got myself into.
That said, it displays the usual Brookmyre style of being well crafted with a light humour and an intricate plot itching to be unravelled. So if you are into Brookmyre AND sci-fi - you'll be in heaven, or some equivalent idyllic digital nanosphere with Bedlam.
So for my star rating, it would probably score at least a 4 if that were my bag.
However, I'm guessing that if anyone is likely to find this review useful, it will be those, like me, who like Brookmyre's crime stuff and might otherwise leap into this book expecting more of the same. So I'm going to dip down to a 3-star rating just to represent the warning about knowing what you're getting into.
I never read any Iain M Banks books, but enjoyed a lot by Iain Banks without the M - it was very thoughtful of him to flag up to his readers which genre they'd be getting by use of that middle initial. I see Christopher is becoming Chris for his next release, so wonder if Brookmyre is going to go down the same route. That would be a welcome move, in my book - and I am looking forward to his 'return to crime', which I expect would warrant an extra star or two in my review.
Awesome
Bedlam is one of my favourite books by Christopher Brookmyre. This might be partly because I work as a programmer, and I do think I enjoyed the book more because I have a background of IT work and '90s first person shooters, but you don't need that background to understand and enjoy the story. As long as you're aware that computer games are a thing, you'll be fine.

The protagonist is likeable, relatable, and believable, and the other characters are also well written. Bedlam has all the great action sequences and hilarity you expect from a Brookmyre novel, and in my view the plot is well written. I could see what the twist at the end was likely to be, but it still kept me guessing because I wanted to know how the situation would be resolved. There's a lot of things to think about with this book, and it raises some ethical questions that are interesting and becoming steadily more relevant as technology advances.
Very funny book with a great plot and an interesting moral dilemma. Has flashbacks and flashforwards that can be a little confusing, but really make the story deeper. Don't read the blurb before you read, as it spoiled the first few chapters for me. Definitely uses curse words, but no sex scenes so you decide if it's age appropriate. A great read and I'm looking forward to reading more of this author's work!