friedegger 's review for:

Moxyland by Lauren Beukes
4.0

The greatest strength of the book is that it skirts the cutting edge of plausibility: everything could happen and the world feels so real and vibrant and rooted that I was sucked in completely. Dystopian fiction usually reads as more abstract, more fantastic but this vision of the future is the one brought to you by all good retailers and the people (the kind that queue up outside Apple stores) will be complicit. It's ugly and brilliant and expertly realised.