Fellside

Published Feb. 27, 2016 by Orbit.

ISBN:
978-0-316-30028-5
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4 stars (10 reviews)

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Review of 'Fellside' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Hovering between a 3 and a 4 for this one. I really enjoyed some parts, including Carey's quick pace writing. I didn't like any of the characters. That in itself isn't necessarily a bad thing, sometimes characters are unlikeable for a reason, but it meant I didn't really care about what happened to them individually. I did care about how the entire story unfolded though, and that's what saved the book for me.

Review of 'Fellside' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

My pre-read notes say "Apparently, it's all a surprise, but the author of the Girl with All the Gifts wrote a book NPR describes as '[a] supernatural fantasy [that] reads like a marriage between Stephen King and Charles De Lint, with a touch of Orange Is The New Black...'" And, yeah, that's basically it, with a few quibbles: I would describe this as Orange Is The New Black, with a touch of De Lint and Stephen King, rather than the other way around; and I think this book is really hurting itself with the "it's all a surprise" shtick.

Let's start with the un-spoiler-y parts: this is a good book. This is an important book. Those who turn their noses up at speculative fiction don't understand that at its finest it takes a simple question of "what-if" and uses that to deeply explore humanity, our existence and modern living in …

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