by Rupert Thomson
bookshelves: one-penny-wonder, paper-read, tbr-busting-2012, autumn-2012, dystopian, sci-fi, published-2005 Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Vivienne Read from September 05 to October 16, 2012 Dedication: To darling Eva, with a love that knows no boundaries.Opening quote: It was as if a curtain had ...
I'm clearly in a bad mood this week for rating books - consider this 2.5 rather than 2.This is another book which had some really solid ideas behind it but which didn't quite have enough of a story to go with. The realisation of the Divided Kingdom was fabulous and I really liked the writing, but it...
My post-apocalyptic book club selection for this month.Not actually post-apocalyptic as dystopian, Thompson's novel posits a near-future England which has been divided into four sectors, based on the four 'humors' of Hippocratic medicine. In order to describe these four areas, Thompson then has a na...
Dedication: To darling Eva, with a love that knows no boundaries.Opening quote: It was as if a curtain had fallen,hiding everything I had ever known.Jean RhysOpening: There were men in my room, and it was bright, too bright, and I was being lifted out of my bed. I didn't struggle or cry out, I didn'...
Sometimes I just can't turn my brain off. I mean, just shut up and enjoy the story already!The concept here is a good one, the United Kingdom, Great Britain, though it's never referred to as that, is drastically reorganized and divided into four separate states based on psychological profiles, which...