Currently trying to finish a book called Les protégés de Sainte Kinga (only available in French I’m afraid, it’s recent and really obscure), the story mixes historical fiction with current-day crime fiction. The settings and scenario are interesting, but I’m not too fond of the writing style and the storytelling.
I felt the same, like the Sprawl trilogy was really two close but different works (1 + 2&3) smashed into one. Personally, while I liked Count Zero, and despite the close ties, it’s Mona Lisa Overdrive that I had the most difficult time to finish.