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A review by lushr
Down Station by Simon Morden
4.0
Simon Morden could write about anything and I'd read it and know I'd be drawn right in by the end of the first page. He has made me read the weirdest of things, things I'd never imagined, and never thought I'd like. But he always succeeds. Really magnetic characters, in relatable situations... Ok no I've not run from a nuclear bombing in the London Underground, but I can well imagine how I'd feel, now that Simon has put it on paper. It's the smaller details, the feelings, the impracticalities that are our lives. Which really bring these pages to life.
The characters, Mary a scrapper from the city, Dalip a middle class boy with no real life experience, must survive with their newly bestowed family in some crazy ass place called Down. and they come across wild characters like the mysterious Crows and the Geomancer, what are their motivations? Their stories?
The story is almost secondary except for Mordons incredible imagination. It's like he has no limits to what he can write, the world of fiction is there to mould into shapes no one else has ever dreamed, like a landscape somehow tied to london where you only enter if you're running for your life. And you can turn into anything you want there and castles grow out of hillsides overnight.
Really this is a three and a half, and that's because it's the first in a series. unusually for Morden, this book does little plot wise. Oh there's plot, but it is nowhere near as packed in as his other titles. And the book suffers for this.
But I'll be the first to get the next one!
The characters, Mary a scrapper from the city, Dalip a middle class boy with no real life experience, must survive with their newly bestowed family in some crazy ass place called Down. and they come across wild characters like the mysterious Crows and the Geomancer, what are their motivations? Their stories?
The story is almost secondary except for Mordons incredible imagination. It's like he has no limits to what he can write, the world of fiction is there to mould into shapes no one else has ever dreamed, like a landscape somehow tied to london where you only enter if you're running for your life. And you can turn into anything you want there and castles grow out of hillsides overnight.
Really this is a three and a half, and that's because it's the first in a series. unusually for Morden, this book does little plot wise. Oh there's plot, but it is nowhere near as packed in as his other titles. And the book suffers for this.
But I'll be the first to get the next one!