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Book Review of The Windup Girl

The Windup Girl
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Helpful Score: 2


Bacigalaupi has created a grim, but believable world with interesting, yet, for the most part, unsympathetic characters and plenty of page turning action. It is an unfeeling and ugly environment, rife with dog-eat-dog interactions. Our present day lack of ecological responsibility and agricultural seed engineering make for a short reach into the dystopian world presented in this excellent novel. This is a very, very dark, but well-written book.