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A review by numshah
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
3.0
Beukes creates a world that just sucks you into its gritty details. This versionof a not-so-distant future of South Africa is wonderfully balanced in that it is still recognisably African and not all flying cars and spaceships. I love how future poverty is characterised and the emergence of a new lowest rung of society is created. Beukes' imagination truly is wonderful.
Unfortunately, the plot veers off in too many different directions for the story to be coherent as a whole. The attempted plot resolution at the end falls flat; it appears that the world of Zoo City is too big, too complex and has too many things going on in it to be addressed in a single book. Beukes is working with too many threads and cannot satisfactorily tie them up neatly.
Still, its an amazing universe which has tonnes of potential. I look forward to another story set in this universe, provided Beukes will limit herself to a manageable number of plotlines, characters and story arcs.
Unfortunately, the plot veers off in too many different directions for the story to be coherent as a whole. The attempted plot resolution at the end falls flat; it appears that the world of Zoo City is too big, too complex and has too many things going on in it to be addressed in a single book. Beukes is working with too many threads and cannot satisfactorily tie them up neatly.
Still, its an amazing universe which has tonnes of potential. I look forward to another story set in this universe, provided Beukes will limit herself to a manageable number of plotlines, characters and story arcs.