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A review by joelhallifax
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
5.0
4.5/5
A beautiful heart-wrenching and compassionate book. The characters - Kathy, Tommy and Ruth - are so fully realised, and so lovingly crafted, I feel as if I could reach out and touch them even when they're enigmatic and even when they don't make any sense at all.
This book unravels masterfully into a tragic tale of what it means to be alive, what it means to love and the ways purpose-driven lives surrender us to our fate and trap us. This book is science fiction on a technical level, but it's literary fiction at it's core. This book embedded it's claws into my skin and starting ripping at it from the beginning. It's very rare for me to shed a tear for words left on a page.
Thought-provoking, strange and loving, this book has reserved a corner in my mind for the foreseeable future.
# The only negative note I really have is the repitition of Kathy telling stories going "but before I tell you this!", this only started to get grating around the 200-220 page mark so fairly late on but still noticeable.
A beautiful heart-wrenching and compassionate book. The characters - Kathy, Tommy and Ruth - are so fully realised, and so lovingly crafted, I feel as if I could reach out and touch them even when they're enigmatic and even when they don't make any sense at all.
This book unravels masterfully into a tragic tale of what it means to be alive, what it means to love and the ways purpose-driven lives surrender us to our fate and trap us. This book is science fiction on a technical level, but it's literary fiction at it's core. This book embedded it's claws into my skin and starting ripping at it from the beginning. It's very rare for me to shed a tear for words left on a page.
Thought-provoking, strange and loving, this book has reserved a corner in my mind for the foreseeable future.
# The only negative note I really have is the repitition of Kathy telling stories going "but before I tell you this!", this only started to get grating around the 200-220 page mark so fairly late on but still noticeable.