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

1.0

I have been wanting to read this book for awhile because I love dystopian novels and the premise sounded so interesting. I only made it 50 pages in before giving up, and that was tough but I wanted to give it a chance. It’s SO slow and unnecessarily descriptive of the most boring things (like the main character’s summers as a child). I wanted to hear more about the world he was living in now, but I just couldn’t stick with this book long enough to find out. Also the diary entries are written like an obnoxious English professor instead of the History professor he was - I’ve never had to look up so many words while reading a book. It just felt like it was trying too hard to be written well, and it was still SO boring. Would not recommend.