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jamesreadsgenre's review against another edition
dark
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
misanthrope's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
An unexpected pleasure. Timely in a timeless way. An American version of Wyndham. I would read more from this author.
nekokat's review against another edition
1.0
Entirely too Vonnegut for me. Depressing, political, moralizing, and full to the brim with characters that not only failed to inspire the least bit of empathy, but actively annoyed and/or repulsed -- and this includes the narrator, a small-minded, self-congratulatory idiot I loathed within the first few pages. As if to add insult to injury, the author threw in weird conceits, like omitting apostrophes from contractions and hyphens from compound words, and including a character who constantly switched from one cliched caricature of an accent to another. As a short story it might have been tolerable -- as a 320-page novel it was about 300 pages too long.
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