I started
reading this novel with very low expectations dictated from having read the
reviews by other readers and I must admit, instead, that I was pleasantly
surprised, demonstrating once again how reading the opinions of others can be
misleading.
Actually at
the beginning of the reading I felt disoriented, with all those descriptions of
situations and characters that are hard to imagine and especially with the
remarkably static narrative. Going forward, however, I managed to get used to
the unusual language of the author and appreciate the evocative aspect.
Meanwhile, the story came alive and took hold of me forcing me to go ever
further, so much that it became difficult to stop.
It is an
original work, in which you cannot imagine what will happen next or the real
implications of what has happened, where the main characters are annoying and
you’re apparently happy to realize that at the end the story abandons them,
giving space to much more interesting secondary characters.
The
lingering in improbable descriptions of improbable places and the author’s
ability to get out of each narrative scheme keeping you glued to the pages,
whilst in your head an incredible universe takes shape that only the written
word can evoke, are in my opinion the strengths of this novel. Not everybody is
probably able to appreciate them, but it is undoubtedly a type of science
fiction that is in my comfort zone.
Nova Swing
on Amazon.com.
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