A Wrong Turn etc / Jane Rawson

A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists

by Jane Rawson

fantasy

copyright 2013

part read in May 2019

rated 6/10: read to pass the time

As a dystopian story of post-environmental disaster, this is quite a pleasant book. It's also an unusual mix of nasty and nice... For example:

There's a dead body in the gutter, the heroine steps on it before she notices that it is there. But she is not shocked, this is just part of the dystopia. Then she asks a stranger to help drag the body off the road; he does help. They share the money found in the corpse's pocket. The heroine then attempts to find the dead man's family so that she can return the money. Meanwhile, she is near starving due to having no money of her own... A mix of nasty and nice.

The dystopia is due to environmental collapse. Standard climate disaster warning. There are rich people, very rich people and the desperately struggling poor. All interacting, mixing in their everyday lives. Yet the people are still very nice, very kind, helpful as far as they are able.

Then the fantasy hits -- and it is also rather pleasant. Very weird fantasy but -- as far as I read -- illogical and leading nowhere. I'm sure it's going to lead to a very nice ending, for the heroine at least, possibly for others. I stop reading...

The book is easy to read. Pleasant. The environmental message is heavy but not overwhelming. I simply fail to get involved; it is very easy to stop reading. I stop reading. I am not interested in reading to the end. So I don't.

Perhaps a suitable word for this book is, worthy. A nice message, a weak story.

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