A review by pmarf46
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

4.0

I think you can recognise this book as a very important and foundational text for a lot of modern dystopian fiction, whilst also acknowledging that its plot is a bit thin and its characters somewhat ill-defined. The world-building is what makes *Brave New World* pop; unfortunately, it peaks in its first 30 pages when providing us with the grim, clinical detail of the genetic engineering factory. The plot, however, fritters between different points of view and arcs, never fully feeling earned or justified. We spend a comparably short amount of time with the novel's true protagonist, John, compared to the less interesting and ill-defined Bernard.