Stephanie S. reviewed on 3/4/2018 + 168 more book reviews

This book infuriated me from about page 50 all the way to the end. Very very disappointing read. I think I was finally and forever turned off when I realized that the book, ultimately, would simply never deliver the pay-out it promised. By this I mean, the plot was enticingly "dangled" before me over and over again, and then the prize never materialized. It was like eagerly fishing. The line is cast out over and over and over in high hopes, but the fish just would not be caught.

The book is chronicles a nightmarish future--one involving "carers" and "donors". This prospect was a grabber at the outset, and for a while it kept the pages turning. I specifically expected the idea of being a "donor" to be fully presented. Yes, I will admit I wanted to read the gory details. But I was never allowed the gritty details. Just some maddening hints. The truths when they were revealed, were all mentioned off-handedly, in one or two meager sentences, and then the author moved on and away. Frustrating does not even begin to describe it for this reader. Annoying, disappointed and angry come much closer. Repeatedly I found myself thinking gleefully, "finally--finally--we are about to get down to it"--but then no. A hundred times no.

This book won the Nobel Prize for Literature?? It says so, right on the cover. I simply can't believe it.

* 1/2 One and a half stars. Because....huh?

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