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badayka 's review for:
The Future
by Naomi Alderman
adventurous
challenging
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
+ A look at how our future might look like maybe 30 years from now, specifically how the Amazons, Facebooks, Microsofts and the like of today might shape the geopolitical and ecological situation.
+ Despite the above mentioned setup, the book is not as grim and serious as one might expect.
+ I love flashback chapters/discovering how the present was shaped by the past via a non-linear chapter sequence.
+ The first two thirds of the book hold tension perfectly, I was trying to figuro out how all of the separate characters and occurences will finally connect by the end.
- An complicated as the setup seemed to be, the resolution didn't seem to deliver the final punch the way I expected it to. Maybe I wanted it to end more grimly? Or maybe it just seemed a bit too convenient how everything was resolved with minimal casualties.
+/- I am simultaneously happy and dissatisfied with the ending and I don't know whether it's my genre bias, where I'd expect a book like this to end differently, or if it was genuinely resolved too easily.
+ Despite the above mentioned setup, the book is not as grim and serious as one might expect.
+ I love flashback chapters/discovering how the present was shaped by the past via a non-linear chapter sequence.
+ The first two thirds of the book hold tension perfectly, I was trying to figuro out how all of the separate characters and occurences will finally connect by the end.
- An complicated as the setup seemed to be, the resolution didn't seem to deliver the final punch the way I expected it to. Maybe I wanted it to end more grimly? Or maybe it just seemed a bit too convenient how everything was resolved with minimal casualties.
+/- I am simultaneously happy and dissatisfied with the ending and I don't know whether it's my genre bias, where I'd expect a book like this to end differently, or if it was genuinely resolved too easily.