Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks = ((woo-woo + science) x Parlabane) ^ scepticism.

I was dreading reading this book. Not because i didn't want to read it, but because once i had read it, there would be no more Parlabane to read!

I was advised not to read the back cover (quite the challenge for me; i'm also known to skip ahead and skim pages), but what the back cover spoilt was revealed very early on in the book. Apparently this really was the last Parlabane. I adamantly refused to believe it, and stuck to the first plausible theory i came up with.

(I was smug.)

Like his previous book, Brookmyre alters his narrative style by writing from a first person point of view, and it really helps with this particular story. (And i really enjoyed getting inside Parlabane's head.)

Surprisingly for a Brookmyre book, there was no proper-evil bad guy who i wanted to punch. Instead there were evil bad guys who did a good job of acting rather reasonable and making me not want to punch them. I also managed to accidentally make assumptions about one guy being a bad guy, not realising that was supposed to be a big shock when it was revealed later. I mean, who else could it have been!?

But irregardless of the fact that i guessed most of the twists (or didn't even realise there was supposed to be one), this book was fab. Which, being the eleventh Brookmyre book i've read, was not at all surprising.

I miss Parlabane.