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A review by karlakayjenniges
The Sun Casts No Shadow by Mark Richardson
adventurous
medium-paced
4.0
Wellington Thornycroft is quite a character. He picks pockets, uses ambrosia, indulges in sexual encounters with prostitutes, and generally despises his life.
He lives in a walled city where the sun never shines. It's gloomy, dark and filled with smog from a factory. The heat is overbearing, suffocating and claustrophobic. It is all he has ever known. A mundane, repetitive life.
Until by chance of fate, he has a vision of a dark haired beauty who tells him there is an escape. A beautiful place outside the city walls where the sun shines brightly.
It becomes his obsession to find her and find out who she is. It leads him on a path of secrets, violence, betrayal, and a small glimmer of hope that there may actually be an escape from within the walls.
This is a dystopian world with an inclusion of fantasy. It includes injustice, daily suffering, loss of individualism, and environmental destruction. Creative characters that fit into a fantastical realm.
As I was reading, the children's book that continued to enter my mind was 'The City of Ember', but obviously this has intense adult content. So, not specifically a comparison, but the fact it's an escape from a city that they are all contained in and a dystopian world.
I often felt that this is such a bizarre story with quirky characters, but in a good way. It peaked my interest and I found myself engaged and enjoying it. I wasn't expecting the ending. It caused my jaw to drop and created this sense of utter hopelessness for Wellington.
A creative, somber, uncanny world!
He lives in a walled city where the sun never shines. It's gloomy, dark and filled with smog from a factory. The heat is overbearing, suffocating and claustrophobic. It is all he has ever known. A mundane, repetitive life.
Until by chance of fate, he has a vision of a dark haired beauty who tells him there is an escape. A beautiful place outside the city walls where the sun shines brightly.
It becomes his obsession to find her and find out who she is. It leads him on a path of secrets, violence, betrayal, and a small glimmer of hope that there may actually be an escape from within the walls.
This is a dystopian world with an inclusion of fantasy. It includes injustice, daily suffering, loss of individualism, and environmental destruction. Creative characters that fit into a fantastical realm.
As I was reading, the children's book that continued to enter my mind was 'The City of Ember', but obviously this has intense adult content. So, not specifically a comparison, but the fact it's an escape from a city that they are all contained in and a dystopian world.
I often felt that this is such a bizarre story with quirky characters, but in a good way. It peaked my interest and I found myself engaged and enjoying it. I wasn't expecting the ending. It caused my jaw to drop and created this sense of utter hopelessness for Wellington.
A creative, somber, uncanny world!