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The Children of Men by P.D. James

2.0

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This book started so slowly, so drily, and then got better, but it was an effort to finish. The dystopian setup was good – I love me a good dystopia – but the story wasn’t good enough to match it. I have read P D James before, and her detective writing is far better. The film of this book was also far better than this book, which had an excellent, if slightly unlikely ending, but really struggled to get going.