A review by wyemu
Tanglewreck by Jeanette Winterson

2.0

The first of Winterson's young adult novels, while not the first children's book she has written, 'Tangelwreck' em-compasses many themes that readers of her adult novels will be familiar with, loss of nature, the mechanisation of every part of our lives leading to laziness and the forgetting of what it means to be human. At times these points became a little too laboured, although maybe not so for younger readers unfamiliar with her earlier, adult novels. However, that is not to say that the result isn't effective. One can see similarities to Phillip Pullman's Dark Materials Trilogy with corporations trying to control Time, and through Time, the masses. A good concept and well executed.