rebecca234 's review for:

Universality by Natasha Brown

1.5

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I'm not against a book being more commentary and ideas than plot, but it was like this tried a load of different loose plot lines until it just ended up following one of them at random to the end, and for me the social commentary got lost along the way too. It started off with an attack at a hippy rave during the Covid lockdown, and seemed to be going down the mystery route, but ended up with a 50 page breakdown of a controversial journalist giving her take on politics, society and culture. I don't even remember what happened in the middle but it was barely related to either of these things. I just felt a bit lost throughout and couldn't connect to any of the characters or plot lines.