Tom <<teck4810>>
writes:

This book was reviewed favorably by the New York Times a few weeks
ago. My budget runs to getting it from the library. It's just arrived and I
found the first bit pretty good. Haven't completed it.

I see the Times has just reprinted the review in the Weekend Review of books:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/books/review/skyfaring-by-mark-vanhoenacker.html?ref=books