Twenty-twenty-three was a year of new authors for me. Despite receiving recommendations for the works of Joe Abercrombie, I hadn’t yet delved into his grimdark world. The second trilogy in the First Law series had languished in my Kindle library for ages. I tried Kazuo Ishiguro for the first–and probably the last–time. Robert Jordan droveContinue reading “Best Read Worst Read ’23”
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Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro
The author has a way with words, for want of a better cliché. He paints a vivid picture of a dystopian near future. However, I got an immediate sense of The Midwich Cuckoos with this tale, as if Meat Loaf had remastered Bat Out of Hell and tweaked all the raw talent out of it. I found Kathy’s narrativeContinue reading “Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro”