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A review by lipsandpalms
Vurt by Jeff Noon
2.0
I'm about a third of the way through and I don't care to finish it. It started off mysterious and interesting but now I just don't really care about the plot at all. There's some world building that just doesn't seem to matter, at least not yet. There's a semblance of a plot, but I don't care about the main characters pursuit to rescue his sister to rekindle their incentuous love affair.
The idea of a drug administered by special and rare feathers where the people who take them have a shared hallucination seems cool but so far it hasn't really added anything to the story. It's all so kaleidoscopic that I feels like I'm listening to rambling random nonsense most of the time. A being made of drugs?
What's with the shadow girls and the robo cops? They can read minds and fry brains but the story seems to want to focus on people forcing feathers down each other's throats. There's a more interesting story set in this world but this isn't it. I feel like I'm missing something. Is this a sequel to a previous iteration?
The idea of a drug administered by special and rare feathers where the people who take them have a shared hallucination seems cool but so far it hasn't really added anything to the story. It's all so kaleidoscopic that I feels like I'm listening to rambling random nonsense most of the time. A being made of drugs?
What's with the shadow girls and the robo cops? They can read minds and fry brains but the story seems to want to focus on people forcing feathers down each other's throats. There's a more interesting story set in this world but this isn't it. I feel like I'm missing something. Is this a sequel to a previous iteration?