MixediNews (UK)... chilling because it closely resembles our own climate chaos ... If a screenwriter were adapting Something New Under The Sun, they could assuredly cut the first 100 pages. The narrative only gets going about half-way through, when Patrick and Cassidy team up as amateur sleuths to unravel the conspiracy of WAT-R ... Certain characters are underdeveloped...This is a shame, because Kleeman often thrillingly tips the tough prose of hardboiled detective fiction towards lyrical menace ... Ultimately, though, the various strands of Something New Under The Sun don’t quite hang together. Like WAT-R, there is something about the novel that keeps you thirsting for more ... But even if her characters occasionally lack fire in the belly, Kleeman is a writer working with far more flair than most. Her novels critique the comfortable indifference of life under late capitalism and, as such, are quite the opposite: observant, unnerving and bold.
