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A review by thebookhaze
Ultraviolet by R.J. Anderson
4.0
I liked this book because it talked about synesthesia. I think it would be so cool to have an extra sense that most people didn't have.
This book does a great job of telling the story while informing the reader about this condition. I thought it was fascinating, and I enjoyed the story too. There are just enough elements of reality enmeshed with technology too advanced for us to understand right now, so we see it as other-worldly. The story makes perfect sense, and I can totally see how it could happen.
I like that synesthesia is a real condition, and that it could seem strange to people who didn't know about it or understand it. I feel like that's pretty much how everything is in life; people find it hard to accept the things that they don't understand.
The story itself was interesting mostly in dealing with the psyche. After all, most of it is set in a mental hospital. It's really interesting to see how the definition of "crazy" can be different to people though, and sometimes it's scary, because I believe that any one of us can be crazy, given the right circumstances, or rather, wrong circumstance.
Good book.
This book does a great job of telling the story while informing the reader about this condition. I thought it was fascinating, and I enjoyed the story too. There are just enough elements of reality enmeshed with technology too advanced for us to understand right now, so we see it as other-worldly. The story makes perfect sense, and I can totally see how it could happen.
I like that synesthesia is a real condition, and that it could seem strange to people who didn't know about it or understand it. I feel like that's pretty much how everything is in life; people find it hard to accept the things that they don't understand.
The story itself was interesting mostly in dealing with the psyche. After all, most of it is set in a mental hospital. It's really interesting to see how the definition of "crazy" can be different to people though, and sometimes it's scary, because I believe that any one of us can be crazy, given the right circumstances, or rather, wrong circumstance.
Good book.