Danny Denton

Got to page 59 and just didn't care

Fictitious language, interludes, play script excepts and shifting narrators, make this novel a bit hard to follow at times. When the narrative broke by a change of style and authorship, I found myself asking is this getting in the way, or helping create complexity in the story? For me, on first reading, it gets in the way. The book is very atmospheric - dark, damp,drunken and drug fuelled dreams create a real dystopian sense of despair and lawlessness.