Rosewater
by:
Tade Thompson (author)
Between meeting a boy who bursts into flames, alien floaters that want to devour him, and a butterfly woman who he has sex with when he enters the xenosphere, Kaaro’s life is far from the simple one he wants. But he left simple behind a long time ago when he was caught stealing and nearly killed...
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Between meeting a boy who bursts into flames, alien floaters that want to devour him, and a butterfly woman who he has sex with when he enters the xenosphere, Kaaro’s life is far from the simple one he wants. But he left simple behind a long time ago when he was caught stealing and nearly killed by an angry mob. Now he works for a government agency called Section 45, and t
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B077MGY96X
Publish date: 2017-12-05
Edition language: English
Series: The Wormwood Trilogy (#1)
Kaaro is a resident of Rosewater, a community that grew up around an alien biodome that emerged in Nigeria in 2055. Unlike most of the residents he possesses certain psychic abilities, including the ability to read people, locate things, and enter the "xenosphere" that exists because of the dome's e...
Two and a half stars because I literally lost the plot! I think I have been just too tired to be able to keep up with all the skipping around in the book.Aside from the first person present tense used in the story, I found his frequent and unnecessary referrals to his main character's erection's rat...
"Rosewater" is a startlingly original piece of Science Fiction, set in Nigeria in 2066. It's been a long time since I've encountered a powerful new voice in Science Fiction that combines new ideas with a distinctive storytelling style. Tade Thompson takes a fresh look at the concept of alien inv...
First sentence: I ’m at the Integrity Bank job for forty minutes before the anxieties kick in.Rosewater follows Kaaro as he investigates why sensitives, people with paranormal abilities, are dying now with intermissions from his past. He knows far more than most people, but he doesn’t spill his secr...
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