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3.6 AVERAGE
3.6 AVERAGE
This was like a black mirror episode. As in, it's really really good.
It's also incredibly bleak. The whole idea of being forgotten by everyone is just so chilling. The paranoia of technology used to further the us/ them divide is spot on. It felt like this book was written right now. Targeting all the current hideousness spread across the world like a virus.
I loved it. I loved her and I hated everyone with that awful app (but also I felt sorry for them) . This is absolutely genius. It seems like North is really into exploring second chances. Both this and 'the first fifteen lives...' I think are my favourite books of the year. The concepts are just incredible.
And I won't lie, I even got a little teary eyed at the end.
It's also incredibly bleak. The whole idea of being forgotten by everyone is just so chilling. The paranoia of technology used to further the us/ them divide is spot on. It felt like this book was written right now. Targeting all the current hideousness spread across the world like a virus.
I loved it. I loved her and I hated everyone with that awful app (but also I felt sorry for them) . This is absolutely genius. It seems like North is really into exploring second chances. Both this and 'the first fifteen lives...' I think are my favourite books of the year. The concepts are just incredible.
And I won't lie, I even got a little teary eyed at the end.
I just could not get into this book. I finished it because it was the only book I brought with me for two 3.5 hour flights.
While the concept of Perfection, Hope's "condition", and everything else were interesting... I could not get past the sometimes confusing language and felt like the book was very slow. For me it picked up around 3/4 of the way through, only to drag again all the way up to the end (which left me kind of feeling "that's it?").
While the concept of Perfection, Hope's "condition", and everything else were interesting... I could not get past the sometimes confusing language and felt like the book was very slow. For me it picked up around 3/4 of the way through, only to drag again all the way up to the end (which left me kind of feeling "that's it?").
The concept is super interesting, but the way the concept was playing out was unexpected. Not bad though. I might come back to it, I think I was too sold on what I expected the book to be and wasn't in the mood for what it actually was.
Hope has a... condition: she is forgettable.
Is it a disease or a blessing?
The reader is guided through the process of answering that question as Hope, a professional thief, is ever-more-involved with the impact a program (app?) called Perfection inflicts on a population grown mad with adulation of celebrity.
Couldn't happen- right?
Is it a disease or a blessing?
The reader is guided through the process of answering that question as Hope, a professional thief, is ever-more-involved with the impact a program (app?) called Perfection inflicts on a population grown mad with adulation of celebrity.
Couldn't happen- right?
Patīk man šādas dusmīgas grāmatas. Vismaz nav jāšaubās, vai autoram maz ir kas sakāms.
Really interesting premise, but the plot was a little all over the place, and I didn't fall in love with any of the characters. I liked The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August much better.
Je n'ai pas souvenir d'avoir déjà lu un livre avec un tel format et bien qu'un peu perturbée au départ, notamment par l'utilisation de la première personne dont je ne suis pas vraiment fan, mais aussi par le style si différent de celui découvert lors de ma lecture de "La maison des jeux", je n'en ai pas moins été très vite intriguée.
Hope est un personnage singulier, dont l'esprit ne connaît jamais le repos et nous sommes tout le long dans sa tête, assimilant les choses et personnes rencontrées selon son point de vue et sa condition.
J'aime beaucoup le fait qu'il ait en gros trois parties dans ce livre et que la première ne prépare pas du tout pour les deux autres, leur sérieux et leurs répercussions. Même la seconde ne nous donne pas forcément tout ce qu'il faut pour appréhender la dernière et c'est plaisant.
J'ai aimé le propos, bien qu'il ne soit ni révolutionnaire ni original, convaincue qu'on ne traite jamais assez ce genre de sujets.
Mais surtout, c'est, encore fois, la plume de l'auteur qui a vraiment fonctionné pour moi. Je n'ai pas eu l'impression de faire face à un livre de la personne ayant écrit "La maison des jeux", pourtant, exactement comme pour cette œuvre, c'est l'écriture de Claire North qui m'a fait apprécier cette histoire si particulière et ce personnage singulier. Pas sûre que ça aurait pu marcher avec un autre auteur.
Hope est un personnage singulier, dont l'esprit ne connaît jamais le repos et nous sommes tout le long dans sa tête, assimilant les choses et personnes rencontrées selon son point de vue et sa condition.
J'aime beaucoup le fait qu'il ait en gros trois parties dans ce livre et que la première ne prépare pas du tout pour les deux autres, leur sérieux et leurs répercussions. Même la seconde ne nous donne pas forcément tout ce qu'il faut pour appréhender la dernière et c'est plaisant.
J'ai aimé le propos, bien qu'il ne soit ni révolutionnaire ni original, convaincue qu'on ne traite jamais assez ce genre de sujets.
Mais surtout, c'est, encore fois, la plume de l'auteur qui a vraiment fonctionné pour moi. Je n'ai pas eu l'impression de faire face à un livre de la personne ayant écrit "La maison des jeux", pourtant, exactement comme pour cette œuvre, c'est l'écriture de Claire North qui m'a fait apprécier cette histoire si particulière et ce personnage singulier. Pas sûre que ça aurait pu marcher avec un autre auteur.
Interesting premise, fun writing style, but twice as long as it needed to be.
Quite good, but it just sorta ended. Which bummed me out. I love her writing style though. Will read everything she puts out.
Maybe an actual rating of 3.75 stars? When compared to "First Fifteen Lives", I think so, but by itself, it garners four stars. Again, Claire North's writing was great, I think she writes with passion and intelligence, but the themes were heavy-handed to the point of feeling like lead weights, dropping my rating.
On top of which, the fact that Hope's condition is never really explained or truly further discussed beyond her being a lab rat, seemed like an odd choice; the lack of defined mechanics took away from things slightly, for me at least.
Also, of course Hope is going to be a psychologically confusing and strange character, but even with that, her longings and desires once getting caught up with Rena and Phillipa and Perfection didn't seem to match with the other characteristics we had been given to believe she had, although we jump from her being forgotten slowly as a teenager to a woman of crime, fully forgettable, some years later, while that period of development seems like it would have been fascinating, and would have set up her characterization much more fully.
On top of which, the fact that Hope's condition is never really explained or truly further discussed beyond her being a lab rat, seemed like an odd choice; the lack of defined mechanics took away from things slightly, for me at least.
Also, of course Hope is going to be a psychologically confusing and strange character, but even with that, her longings and desires once getting caught up with Rena and Phillipa and Perfection didn't seem to match with the other characteristics we had been given to believe she had, although we jump from her being forgotten slowly as a teenager to a woman of crime, fully forgettable, some years later, while that period of development seems like it would have been fascinating, and would have set up her characterization much more fully.