Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

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Robin Sloan: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012, Text Publishing Company)

224 pages

English language

Published Nov. 5, 2012 by Text Publishing Company.

ISBN:
978-1-922079-16-9
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Clay Jannon is a 26 year old who finds himself looking for a new job thanks to the economic meltdown. He finds it at Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, working the late shift. But Clay soon finds out that there is more to this bookstore than the question of how it is possible it remains in business. Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore will take you on a literary adventure of complex codes and a global conspiracy.

This will be a hard book to review without giving away any spoilers but I will try my best. Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore starts off as an exciting mystery when Clay begins his new job and is faced with a lot of unanswered questions. But I soon found myself being bored with what was happening and almost quit. It did change its gears when Clay has found out what is going on and the adventure begins. …

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Subjects

  • Fiction, fantasy, contemporary
  • Booksellers and bookselling, fiction
  • San francisco (calif.), fiction
  • Fiction, suspense
  • Fiction, action & adventure