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Mobius
Katherine Markham is a 27 year old Londoner who has drifted away from her PhD studies in Oxford, and become a regular at sex parties, where the rich, beautiful, and bored play in perverse decadence. One night in Mayfair she meets newbie Nick, a marketing executive trying to escape his banal work and stale relationships. After a brief frisson in a pool, they witness an esoteric and sadistic ritual in which a young pregnant blonde woman appears to be thrown from the roof.
Alone, the night before is a blur. Katherine notices a mark below her navel which turns out to be a tattoo in the shape of an infinity sign. Being a woman very much in control of her sexuality, this freaks her out but she can’t piece together what has happened to her and who is responsible. A series of dead ends eventually leads her to contacting Nick who has been more successful with his search, and they return to the location of the party, where they get information from a group of squatters about the identity of the missing woman.
Nick and Katherine explore London together in pursuit of the lost blonde. Nick finds Katherine’s sexual and intellectual liberation beguiling. She doesn’t know who to trust yet is smitten, against her better nature, by the cynical and witty Nick.
Katherine’s wannabe boyfriend, Zach, a jealous self-described alpha male lawyer, hacks her email and goes to a country house party to spy on her. He is kidnapped and tortured by Konrad, the head of a dubious genetic research institute. Katherine, believing that she is discovering clues to the whereabouts of Zach ends up following a trail deliberately set for her that puts her in a sinister private clinic in Italy.
Katherine's quest to discover who is behind all this and who she can trust leads her on a wild adventure to the outer reaches of science, sexuality, and love, in a novel filled with dark humour and challenging ideas about contemporary life.
Alone, the night before is a blur. Katherine notices a mark below her navel which turns out to be a tattoo in the shape of an infinity sign. Being a woman very much in control of her sexuality, this freaks her out but she can’t piece together what has happened to her and who is responsible. A series of dead ends eventually leads her to contacting Nick who has been more successful with his search, and they return to the location of the party, where they get information from a group of squatters about the identity of the missing woman.
Nick and Katherine explore London together in pursuit of the lost blonde. Nick finds Katherine’s sexual and intellectual liberation beguiling. She doesn’t know who to trust yet is smitten, against her better nature, by the cynical and witty Nick.
Katherine’s wannabe boyfriend, Zach, a jealous self-described alpha male lawyer, hacks her email and goes to a country house party to spy on her. He is kidnapped and tortured by Konrad, the head of a dubious genetic research institute. Katherine, believing that she is discovering clues to the whereabouts of Zach ends up following a trail deliberately set for her that puts her in a sinister private clinic in Italy.
Katherine's quest to discover who is behind all this and who she can trust leads her on a wild adventure to the outer reaches of science, sexuality, and love, in a novel filled with dark humour and challenging ideas about contemporary life.
242 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 16, 2012
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June 6, 2014
Katherine and Nick go to special parties where anything can happen. Special rules apply and it is a mystery as to who is involved and how extreme the parties become. MOBIUS is a strange novel set in Britain and has an odd mix of characters. There is quite a lot of sex involved, with plenty of BDSM. When things started to go wrong, I thought this novel would follow the lines of a regular crime thriller but I was wrong.
MOBIUS is all about sexuality and society. It explores how people fit in and what drives them sexually, how public opinion is formed and special interest groups work. Fans of Dan Brown should enjoy MOBIUS as there is mystery involving pseudo-religion, rituals, secret societies and symbols. This is an enjoyable novel that you can escape into and at the end you come back into reality as Katherine uses her Oyster card and travels onboard a Transport for London bus. Only you are left thinking, "I wonder if these underground rituals do take place under my nose as London goes about it's daily business".
Ann has written a good novel with plenty of detail to make it real. It is an intellectual read with plenty of depth. This story is about a lot more than a kiss and a cuddle. The plot did not develop in the way I expected but it was a pleasure to read. MOBIUS is a good read if you are looking for escapism and I will vote it 4 stars.
MOBIUS is available as an Amazon Kindle eBook and was written in 2012.
MOBIUS is all about sexuality and society. It explores how people fit in and what drives them sexually, how public opinion is formed and special interest groups work. Fans of Dan Brown should enjoy MOBIUS as there is mystery involving pseudo-religion, rituals, secret societies and symbols. This is an enjoyable novel that you can escape into and at the end you come back into reality as Katherine uses her Oyster card and travels onboard a Transport for London bus. Only you are left thinking, "I wonder if these underground rituals do take place under my nose as London goes about it's daily business".
Ann has written a good novel with plenty of detail to make it real. It is an intellectual read with plenty of depth. This story is about a lot more than a kiss and a cuddle. The plot did not develop in the way I expected but it was a pleasure to read. MOBIUS is a good read if you are looking for escapism and I will vote it 4 stars.
MOBIUS is available as an Amazon Kindle eBook and was written in 2012.
July 2, 2012
Fifty shades of grey for grownups. Much darker, more like black. Black humour, violence, and sex. The sexually liberated protagonist Katherine battles the forces of genetics, Hungarian mad boffins, cavemen, and silly posh dickheads in DJs. She is unusual, part Anais Nin, part ice queen, and the book roars along through some of the weirdest mashup of ideas I have ever read. Thriller, mystery, or dystopian fantasy.
April 2, 2020
Does not flow well.
July 12, 2012
'To forget oneself is to be enlightened by all things'.
Mobius manages to mix realism and fantasy, without at any point excusing the grimness of the former or the intrinsic ubermenschness of the latter. Absurdism and realism are one and the same here. There is no moralising hypocrisy on the part of the narrator: we know these characters are very real and what they do in this particular novel is always there as a potential in their everyday life. The unleashing of their potential in this fiction is as fantastic as it is horrifying. But make no mistake, it is a release of potentials driven and brought forth by an idea, or a theory, that is all but horrific. The leitmotif, which runs through the plot constantly splitting into two and unravels to its realisation only in the shocking conclusion, is the desire for a better human, a sort of hybrid between pre-ancient and post-modern. So long as this desire is kept at bay and relegated to the world of harmless and inconsequential academicising, society can carry on with its everyday abuse, street violence, atomised existence, puritan mores and token gestures of resistance. But the unleashing of this desire onto bodies, in an elaborate strategy, turns it into the opposite of its affirmation. This split, this failure to affirm the idea, is the impossibility to act.
Bodies orgasm and die in the process because at stake is no other than the loss of selfhood, something only the sensuous can ever come close to accomplishing. And when at times the novel expresses this it immediately feels compelled to negate it with a graphic display of the utmost force. But that this force should take the form of death for the sake of reproduction, of death as birth, only reinforces the cynical message of the novel: that a better human cannot be born.
Mobius manages to mix realism and fantasy, without at any point excusing the grimness of the former or the intrinsic ubermenschness of the latter. Absurdism and realism are one and the same here. There is no moralising hypocrisy on the part of the narrator: we know these characters are very real and what they do in this particular novel is always there as a potential in their everyday life. The unleashing of their potential in this fiction is as fantastic as it is horrifying. But make no mistake, it is a release of potentials driven and brought forth by an idea, or a theory, that is all but horrific. The leitmotif, which runs through the plot constantly splitting into two and unravels to its realisation only in the shocking conclusion, is the desire for a better human, a sort of hybrid between pre-ancient and post-modern. So long as this desire is kept at bay and relegated to the world of harmless and inconsequential academicising, society can carry on with its everyday abuse, street violence, atomised existence, puritan mores and token gestures of resistance. But the unleashing of this desire onto bodies, in an elaborate strategy, turns it into the opposite of its affirmation. This split, this failure to affirm the idea, is the impossibility to act.
Bodies orgasm and die in the process because at stake is no other than the loss of selfhood, something only the sensuous can ever come close to accomplishing. And when at times the novel expresses this it immediately feels compelled to negate it with a graphic display of the utmost force. But that this force should take the form of death for the sake of reproduction, of death as birth, only reinforces the cynical message of the novel: that a better human cannot be born.
May 18, 2013
I'm not sure I'll finish that one. I've read 60% of it so far, and I just keep falling asleep on it. I think the idea behind the book is interesting but the delivery is painful. Also, if you use French here and there in a novel, please try to get it right.
October 4, 2015
Thrilling and sexy, great erotic fiction.
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