Shadow of the Scorpion

Author: Neal Asher
Published: 2008
 

I really enjoyed Asher's short fiction so grabbed this volume of the new releases shelf at the library.
 

Shadow of the Scorpian tracks Ian Cormac through early childhood and later adulthood. The dual narrative threads slowed me down in the beginning. This is also a later novel of the Polity universe he has created. Not knowing some of that history may have been part of my troubles in the first few chapters.
 

The plot sorted out for me and I continued on, enjoying the book as a whole. Very much gritty space opera which can be an acquired taste.