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lightreads) wrote2020-02-13 01:08 pm
lightreads) wrote2020-02-13 01:08 pm
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The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North
The Sudden Appearance of Hope
3+/5. A woman has the power/curse that everyone forgets her existence as soon as she is out of sight. She becomes a thief, and then gets tangled up in weird near future stuff involving a lifestyle app and brainwashing.
This is interesting and compulsively readable, with a few minus points for being so obviously pieced together. Like you can still see the chisel marks, if you know what I mean. But the concept is interesting, and the execution travels from fun heist scenarios to desolation, and through to something else. I had my doubts going in because I generally read books for relationships (not necessarily romantic, but emotionally complex or satisfying dynamics). And how do you write about relationships when your first person narrator can't live in anyone else's mind? It turns out you can. It's just that the relationships are unbalanced and complicated and sad and mysterious and hopeful.
3+/5. A woman has the power/curse that everyone forgets her existence as soon as she is out of sight. She becomes a thief, and then gets tangled up in weird near future stuff involving a lifestyle app and brainwashing.
This is interesting and compulsively readable, with a few minus points for being so obviously pieced together. Like you can still see the chisel marks, if you know what I mean. But the concept is interesting, and the execution travels from fun heist scenarios to desolation, and through to something else. I had my doubts going in because I generally read books for relationships (not necessarily romantic, but emotionally complex or satisfying dynamics). And how do you write about relationships when your first person narrator can't live in anyone else's mind? It turns out you can. It's just that the relationships are unbalanced and complicated and sad and mysterious and hopeful.