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A review by trackofwords
Inscape by Louise Carey
4.0
Louise Carey’s debut novel Inscape is a smart, modern sci-fi thriller, a dystopian tale exploring a worryingly realistic future in which corporations dominate every aspect of life, and London is held on a knife-edge between two all-powerful tech behemoths. Tanta is a Corporate Ward of InTech, raised to be utterly loyal to the company which has given her everything, and trained to be the consummate agent. When her first full mission ends in blood and loss, she throws herself into hunting down the source of leaked corporate data alongside a partner whose chequered history and weary worldview couldn’t be more different to her own. Tanta is desperate to succeed and prove her value to InTech, but as her investigation proceeds she’s forced to confront some difficult truths about the company and her life up to this point.
It’s a pacy, action-packed story that’s full of excitement, thrills and more than a few moments of genuine (in some cases stomach-churning) darkness, but its real strength lies in its characters and the emotional journey that Carey puts them through. Combined with excellent world building and fast-paced plot, it's a gripping, characterful novel which hits all the right notes for a breathless modern SF thriller. As the first volume in a planned trilogy there are a few arcs left deliberately hanging by the end, but the core narrative resolves in a suitably satisfying manner for it to stand on its own as a strong, entertaining novel that’s genuinely difficult to put down.
Many thanks to Gollancz and Louise Carey for providing me with an advance copy of Inscape in exchange for my honest review.
Read the full review at https://www.trackofwords.com/2021/01/26/inscape-louise-carey/
It’s a pacy, action-packed story that’s full of excitement, thrills and more than a few moments of genuine (in some cases stomach-churning) darkness, but its real strength lies in its characters and the emotional journey that Carey puts them through. Combined with excellent world building and fast-paced plot, it's a gripping, characterful novel which hits all the right notes for a breathless modern SF thriller. As the first volume in a planned trilogy there are a few arcs left deliberately hanging by the end, but the core narrative resolves in a suitably satisfying manner for it to stand on its own as a strong, entertaining novel that’s genuinely difficult to put down.
Many thanks to Gollancz and Louise Carey for providing me with an advance copy of Inscape in exchange for my honest review.
Read the full review at https://www.trackofwords.com/2021/01/26/inscape-louise-carey/