![]() ![]() Having these awful people out of their air-conditioned, pampered environment is, at least, a change, even if it all feels very familiar. ![]() There’s some vague mystery about Abby, where she comes from and her ability to read the thoughts of animals, which I assume will be a focus of the second part of the novel, but really the most exciting thing to happen is having Duncan, Swanny and Abby escape to the broken, scorched, poverty-ridden part of the city after the Ripple mansion is attacked by looters and scavengers. The Ripples are obscenely wealthy, but they’re trapped by that wealth and the marriage between Duncan and Swanny, which takes forever to happen, is weighed down by the fact that Duncan and Swanny are – and this is an understatement – two very irritating people. Aside from Dunk crashing into the garbage island – which is resolved relatively quickly – most of the story has centred around establishing the gilded-cage nature of the society. It’s taken far too long, nearly half the novel, for the plot to step into gear. ![]()
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