A review by constant__reader
The Children of Men by P.D. James

4.0

I'm torn with whether I should give this book 3 out of 5 or 4. I think I will settle with 3.5. Really the only reason it's not receiving full stars is I found the details of the Omega + the world's infertility a little dry and lacking at the beginning, and the masculine show-boating between Rolf and Theo was a little petty and lacking in depth. The book itself was beautifully written and I found myself, for the first time in over a year, faced with looking up a few older and less used words throughout the authors intriguing writing style. I'm not used to reading shorter novels and did feel like there could be more depth to the backstory, but the characters themselves, wrapped in mystery and pulled together by fate, were hard not to love and be intrigued by. Once the story picked up it was truly hard to put down. Thought provoking and eerie in it's implications of a not-so-distant future wrought by infertility and social collapse, this is an excellent dystopian novel from the 90s.