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Sto caricando le informazioni... She's a Killerdi Kirsten McDougall
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I was a bit flummoxed when a weird and funny novel about a fairly awful slacker in near-future Wellington turned into a thriller about radicals assassinating climate refugees without really changing tone. Amusingly the protagonist works in the enrolment office at Victoria University, where I once worked myself, but not much overlap with my recollections. This was hyped as a possible Ockham winner, and I guess it's good, but the dramatic climax didn't really work for me. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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The world's climate is in crisis and New Zealand is being divided and reshaped by privileged immigrant wealthugees. Thirty-something Alice has a near-genius IQ and lives at home with her mother with whom she communicates by Morse code. Alice's imaginary friend, Simp, has shown up, with a running commentary on her failings. 'I mean, can you even calculate the square root of 762 anymore?' The last time Simp was here was when Alice was seven, on the night a fire burned down the family home. Now Simp seems to be plotting something. When Alice meets a wealthugee named Pablo, she thinks she's found a way out of her dull existence. But then she meets Pablo's teenage daughter, Erika - an actual genius full of terrifying ambition. This is the story of a brilliant and stubborn slacker who is drawn into radical action. It's about what happens when we refuse to face our most demanding problems, told by a woman who is a strange and calculating force of chaos. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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It's a little hard to nail down the genre, but one reviewer suggested that it was like crossing Eleanor Oliphant with Killing Eve.
So, it's dark, but not really. Analytical, but with humour. I found a romp of a read and would recommend it to readers of widely divergent tastes. ( )