The Best of all Possible Worlds
by Karen Lord
science fiction, chick lit
copyright 2014
read in January 2015
rated 6/10: read to pass the time
The title says it all. A happy story about happy people. A few moral issues quickly solved... or declared to be too hard to solve.
Plus the glaringly obvious romance, gradually developing. An interesting background to the heroine's reluctance to commit. And then she takes off her glasses, shakes out her hair and realised that she is beautiful...
Well, okay, not that last bit. But almost :-)
The beginning is a bit hard to follow. It took me a while to understand the background. That's not necessarily a problem, I had learnt enough before the end of the book.
So is it a good book ?
Well, yes. Good but not great. Easy reading, nice characters, simple plot. Science fiction ideas... gradually morphing into chick lit.
If I'd never read it, i would not have missed it. But I found it easy to read. And I did enjoy it.
"If he had a mind, there was something on it." PG Wodehouse, of a troubled Pongo Twistleton
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