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“Why would anyone hug a tree?” I stammered out. “You would most likely die!”Nah, you certainly don’t hug trees in Koli’s world, unless you are acutely suicidal. This is unspecified-time-in-the-future “Ingland” (part of what was once known as “Yewkay”) where, fed up with climate change, trees become bloodthirsty predators and regressed humanity huddles behind tall walls in ever-shrinking villages, relying on bits and pieces of still-functional old world tech that might as well be magic for al ...more
I've been enjoying M.R. Cary for quite some time now and I jumped on the chance to review his new series through Netgalley.
So was it everything I might have hoped? Yes! And maybe.
At first, I realized, belatedly, that this had all the hallmarks of a YA novel. He's done some good YA in the past, so I settled into life in a dystopian future with ancient advanced tech, trees that like to hunt us, and provincial life that takes a major turn for the worse.
Standard fare, mostly, with some really fun ...more
So was it everything I might have hoped? Yes! And maybe.
At first, I realized, belatedly, that this had all the hallmarks of a YA novel. He's done some good YA in the past, so I settled into life in a dystopian future with ancient advanced tech, trees that like to hunt us, and provincial life that takes a major turn for the worse.
Standard fare, mostly, with some really fun ...more
2.5 stars
This was unfortunately not as good as I had hoped it would be. The first half was pretty slow, but it did pick up some in the second half.
The main character was not very engaging, but the side characters of Ursala and Monono made me stick with it to the end. Aside from the uneven pacing and the uninspiring main character, my central disappointment with this book is that the story offers nothing new in the genre. I feel like I've read this kind of gritty post-apocalyptic YA story many ti ...more
This was unfortunately not as good as I had hoped it would be. The first half was pretty slow, but it did pick up some in the second half.
The main character was not very engaging, but the side characters of Ursala and Monono made me stick with it to the end. Aside from the uneven pacing and the uninspiring main character, my central disappointment with this book is that the story offers nothing new in the genre. I feel like I've read this kind of gritty post-apocalyptic YA story many ti ...more
I’ve read Carey’s excellent Felix Castor series as well as the Girl with all the Gifts and the Boy on the Bridge and found it all Good Stuff, so I was excited to read the blurb for this and keen to get started. I was surprised by this. Koli was not a particularly charismatic main character, the world building was partial, much of it unexplained. I liked the syntax and pattern of Koli’s voice. All in all, a bit disappointing. Many thanks to Netgalley for an arc of this book.
Three hundred years after a cataclysmic war, the remaining humans live in widely separated gated settlements, and fear every mutated thing that lives outside, including the plants.
Tech is no longer prevalent, with little of it understood, much less working. The few who can get tech to work are venerated, as they are in Koli’s settlement. Koli is a young man who, along with his two friends (one of whom he thinks he’s in love with, Spinner), lives and works in a time when lives are hard and can b ...more
Tech is no longer prevalent, with little of it understood, much less working. The few who can get tech to work are venerated, as they are in Koli’s settlement. Koli is a young man who, along with his two friends (one of whom he thinks he’s in love with, Spinner), lives and works in a time when lives are hard and can b ...more
I’ve loved Carey’s previous books but this just didn’t work for me. I found it tedious and boring and couldn’t wait to finish it. I almost DNF’d it in a couple of places but I kept thinking it would get better.
Book of Koli
By M. R. Carey
I won the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book from a Goodreads Giveaway.
I will try to keep this review spoiler free, because I feel it’s best to go in mostly blind.
The world as we knew it was lost some time ago. People are afraid of plants, trees and random old shooty drones.
Koli lives in a small town named Mythen Rood. He steals a piece of old tech from the storage room of his town hall and figures out how to turn it on, meets the AI, Monono Aware (who ...more
By M. R. Carey
I won the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book from a Goodreads Giveaway.
I will try to keep this review spoiler free, because I feel it’s best to go in mostly blind.
The world as we knew it was lost some time ago. People are afraid of plants, trees and random old shooty drones.
Koli lives in a small town named Mythen Rood. He steals a piece of old tech from the storage room of his town hall and figures out how to turn it on, meets the AI, Monono Aware (who ...more
Loving this post-apocalyptic adventure!
Dec 16, 2019
Jo
marked it as to-read
Dec 21, 2019
Christina Pilkington
marked it as tbr-2020-maybe
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Mar 29, 2020
Andrew Tucker
marked it as to-read
Apr 14, 2020
Gali
marked it as to-read
May 10, 2020
Gleamhound
marked it as to-read
Jun 20, 2020
Ctgt
marked it as to-read
