166 reviews for:

Vurt

Jeff Noon

3.88 AVERAGE

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

nice one, kind of "matrix-ish"

Interesting, that's for sure. It wasn't an "I can't put this book down" kind of book, but I was definitely drawn back to it over and over wanting to find out how it ends.

Honestly not sure what I think about this. A very odd book.

Bonkers. An original, surreal universe with style and substance. There’s one pretty messed up love story that is a huge plot point and hard to overlook. I’m left with a lot of questions and not sure if I want the answers. It’s fun to think about.

Algorithmic and derivative cyberpunk. But... reading this book felt so similar to what reading felt like when I was 9-13 years old--I'd start believing in magic if it asked me to. Maybe this is just a hallmark of "genre fiction," with its siren call of escapism and traceable narrative succession, but I'll take a tesseract when I see one.