After the series reached a big climax with the last book this one was very much more focussed inwards. There is a lot going on in Peter's personal life and it felt nice to take a little breather.

The case of this book sees Peter going undercover into an IT / tech company and as someone who works in IT myself, this was quite a nice surprise. He is surrounded by a bunch of nerdy and fun characters, there was a lot of cool insight into the just established insanity that are office jobs, and it kind of made me feel right at home and gave me a lot of chuckles. Also there have been quite a lot of opportunities for Aaronovitch to flex his nerd creds and any book that is able to accurately reference modern board gaming immediately gets a big plus from me.

However the case itself felt fairly straightforward and aside from the general technical themes there was just not a lot there that was able to impress.

The author tried something different in the beginning where we pretty much got thrown right into a new setting and then we had a few alternating flashback chapters that explained how we got there. I found this to be a little more interesting than the linear storytelling of the rest of the novel and was a little disappointed when it already ended after just a few chapters. 

I am probably sounding way more negative than I should be, so let me clarify. I truly enjoyed this book, it was just way more about the themes, the humor and the characters that resonated with me. So even if the plot in general might not have been that great, I still had a lot of fun with it.