M R Forbes has a weird sense of propriety. It is truly silly that Forbes has even his most repulsive characters say ‘frig’, ‘frigging’, ‘frigger’; and, now, ‘Cluster Frig’.
This series is full of obscenity, profanity and sadism. There are even some references to pedophilia.
In context, ‘frig’ and its derivations are completely anomalous in a story so replete with truly offensive language and topics. If the author’s inclusion of such things was an attempt at realism, then he has undermined his own work.
Overall, the storyline is good. However, the lack of continuity in the characters’ details in very distracting. 😏