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3.51 AVERAGE
3.51 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A dizzying cyberpunk novel, I found this book more than a little bit confusing. Beukes is very sparing in exposition, throwing the reader straight into the action and it took me more than half the book just to figure out what was going on. The multiplicity of perspective, while an interesting tool used deftly, only made it harder for me to realize who's who and what's what.
Nevertheless, Moxyland describes a powerful dystopia with a suite of flawed characters facing an impregnable repression machine, each trying to find their way around it. The importance of the world as a character in its own right in this story, however, makes the confusion generated by the book all the book frustrating.
Nevertheless, Moxyland describes a powerful dystopia with a suite of flawed characters facing an impregnable repression machine, each trying to find their way around it. The importance of the world as a character in its own right in this story, however, makes the confusion generated by the book all the book frustrating.
challenging
dark
mysterious
challenging
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
The greatest strength of the book is that it skirts the cutting edge of plausibility: everything could happen and the world feels so real and vibrant and rooted that I was sucked in completely. Dystopian fiction usually reads as more abstract, more fantastic but this vision of the future is the one brought to you by all good retailers and the people (the kind that queue up outside Apple stores) will be complicit. It's ugly and brilliant and expertly realised.
challenging
dark
funny
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
dark
tense
fast-paced