Fiction – Fantasy fiction/dystopian – humour
Read as a paper book
Short Review
Set in a future world where social standing is set by what colours you can see.
In the first 30 pages of this book I almost gave up. I like weird books, but this was something else. So much new information bombarded at you with very little actual explanation as to what is going on. I said a few times to my wife that I was going to give up on it.
Then, all of a sudden things started making sense, well they didn’t, but then they sort of did. There was so many unanswered questions that I had to keep reading, and the characters were just perfect for the story and pulled you along as well.
Once I was into this book I couldn’t put it own, so utterly odd I couldn’t predict anything, a bit like if Douglas Adams had taken acid. While I’m reading a book I sometimes think how I’d put this onto the TV, but this one would be hard to do.
Looking forward to reading the second book in this series.
What I learnt as a writer reading this –
That the world you create can be as crazy as you like as long as the people living in that world believe they live there. This book was filled up with phrases and things that made the absolutely bonkers seem normal. They’d drop phrases or saying with no explanation and the meaning would only become apparent to you at a later date.
No info dumping. He created a world with so many unanswered questions that you had to keep reading to find out answers. The world building and questions around that really set it apart. There was no character explaining everything away.
Book 1 of 2025
Kev Alviti Writes 
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