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The City of Woven Streets
by Emmi Itäranta
This book took me far too long to read in proportion to my enjoyment of it.
I always thought that for me, a good dystopian novel should always start with the illusion of contentment for the protagonist followed by the slow building of paranoia. This book starts with an "itch" and a sense of not-belonging and I suppose it has led me to view with fresh eyes some of the others I have read in the past.
This is a wonderfully lyrical book with an ebb-and-flow in the action which fits happily with that of one of the book's other prominent characters; the sea around the Island plays a subtle but powerful part in the happenings on the Island and to its inhabitants.
I always thought that for me, a good dystopian novel should always start with the illusion of contentment for the protagonist followed by the slow building of paranoia. This book starts with an "itch" and a sense of not-belonging and I suppose it has led me to view with fresh eyes some of the others I have read in the past.
This is a wonderfully lyrical book with an ebb-and-flow in the action which fits happily with that of one of the book's other prominent characters; the sea around the Island plays a subtle but powerful part in the happenings on the Island and to its inhabitants.