Kristen H. (tigger5677) reviewed on 9/4/2009 + 42 more book reviews

Ishiguro's novel "Never Let Me Go" is a social commentary in fictional memoir form. The narrator Kathy H. takes us through her child hood and young adult hood in a group home, while never quite explaining the interesting difference between the residents of the group home and the rest of the world. Hailsham and it's resident are "special" to say the least. While I found the book compelling enough to finish, I think the social commentary fell flat and the true distopian nature of the book was muddled in the often rambling, esoteric nature of the story. If Ishiguro has been upfront in the description of the residents of Hailsham I might have enjoyed the book more. To be honest 85% of the book was superfluous to the novel and I felt like the book would have made a great short story, but it was much too cumbersome to be called a "great" novel.

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