Dubi reviewed Moxyland by Lauren Beukes
Review of 'Moxyland' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
A dizzying cyberpunk novel, I found this book more than a little bit confusing. Beukes is very sparing in exposition, throwing the reader straight into the action and it took me more than half the book just to figure out what was going on. The multiplicity of perspective, while an interesting tool used deftly, only made it harder for me to realize who's who and what's what.
Nevertheless, Moxyland describes a powerful dystopia with a suite of flawed characters facing an impregnable repression machine, each trying to find their way around it. The importance of the world as a character in its own right in this story, however, makes the confusion generated by the book all the book frustrating.
A dizzying cyberpunk novel, I found this book more than a little bit confusing. Beukes is very sparing in exposition, throwing the reader straight into the action and it took me more than half the book just to figure out what was going on. The multiplicity of perspective, while an interesting tool used deftly, only made it harder for me to realize who's who and what's what.
Nevertheless, Moxyland describes a powerful dystopia with a suite of flawed characters facing an impregnable repression machine, each trying to find their way around it. The importance of the world as a character in its own right in this story, however, makes the confusion generated by the book all the book frustrating.