Completed: 2/20/2023
Recommendation: Recommended
Recommended By: This came from a new release list and seemed tantalizing.
Words for which I sought help:
conker -- British expression for a horse chestnut
helter skelter -- British word for a spiral slide that goes around a central tower
Review:
This book looks hard at memory. There is marginal character development as opposed to revelation. The ending does not tie things up neatly. In short, it is a brief look at people whose story really does not matter except in the details. As a whole, it doesn't matter what the story is of those individuals except in so far as it furthers the ideas being explored. I am comfortable with this kind of science fiction because I don't have to find the people believable--it is a little like humor, it is fine for the people to be distorted. The people of this novel are starkly distorted and that really forwards the story. I enjoyed the story itself and felt my mind expand at the concepts addressed. Very rewarding.
