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Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go (2010, Vintage International) 4 stars

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were …

Review of 'Never Let Me Go' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Someone took a science fiction premise and surrounded it with relationships, feelings and things that aren't from a dystopia society and really made me interested in the story. Make no mistake, the science fiction part of "Never Let Me Go" is a slow burn, but there is enough story to keep you going that you forget what kind of book you are reading. The answers aren't laid out in the beginning and through reminiscing on memories you receive little nuggets of detail about the world this book takes place in. If you find yourself wondering what the point of Hailsham or Guardians are, that's only natural feeling and soon you'll get all the details you need.

This is a different take on science fiction, and for a while I wasn't even sure there was any in this book but it's presented neatly in an all around pleasant story.