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A review by octavia_cade
Star Gazers by Duncan Sarkies
reflective
tense
medium-paced
4.0
I was lucky enough to get an advance copy of this for review. Before anything else, though - isn't that cover amazing? I can't stop staring at it. Love it.
It's a fantastic cover for a fantastic book. I'm sure that most people have been part of a relatively small organisation at some point, whether it's a neighbourhood group or a hobby group or something that like, and I'm equally sure that most of us can recall a time when everything in that group turned to custard because of infighting between the members. Doesn't matter if the issue was large or small of even if it was completely irrelevant, it got people up in arms.
Such is the case with the Alpaca Breeders Organisation of NZ. A rigged election in the ABO sparks off a bitter quarrel of corruption and rebellion and it's shockingly compelling. I wish I could say that I couldn't see parallels and inspiration in real life, but this reads very much like an extended metaphor for what's going on in the world today, and it's simultaneously fascinating and depressing. Just very, very well done. This is the first book from Sarkies that I've read, and I'm going to have to go out and read more of them, because I thoroughly enjoyed it.
It's a fantastic cover for a fantastic book. I'm sure that most people have been part of a relatively small organisation at some point, whether it's a neighbourhood group or a hobby group or something that like, and I'm equally sure that most of us can recall a time when everything in that group turned to custard because of infighting between the members. Doesn't matter if the issue was large or small of even if it was completely irrelevant, it got people up in arms.
Such is the case with the Alpaca Breeders Organisation of NZ. A rigged election in the ABO sparks off a bitter quarrel of corruption and rebellion and it's shockingly compelling. I wish I could say that I couldn't see parallels and inspiration in real life, but this reads very much like an extended metaphor for what's going on in the world today, and it's simultaneously fascinating and depressing. Just very, very well done. This is the first book from Sarkies that I've read, and I'm going to have to go out and read more of them, because I thoroughly enjoyed it.