Afterparty

302 pages

English language

Published Aug. 5, 2014

ISBN:
978-0-7653-3692-7
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OCLC Number:
844728118

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4 stars (9 reviews)

Following the suicide of a seventeen-year-old Toronto street girl who used a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, Lyda Rose, one of the original scientists who developed the drug, sets out to find the other three survivors of the five who made the Numinous in a quest to set things right.

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3 stars

I was barely a quarter of the way into this book when I almost decided to abandon it, thinking that I rather disliked it. Luckily, I stuck with it, and discovered halfway through that it wasn't the book I didn't like, but the protagonist. Not how she was written, mind -- Gregory does a decent job there, with plenty of insights into her character and motivation -- just her herself. I didn't, and don't, like Lyda Rose as a person.

The story itself was quite nice, actually. The questions it raises about divinity, free will, and how faith affects relationships with others and ourselves, are worth exploring.

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Subjects

  • Drug abuse
  • Fiction
  • Women scientists

Places

  • Toronto (Ont.)