In a dystopian future, the UK government has been all but replaced by the Company. Now everything has a price - murder, robbery, rape. If you've done a crime but can't pay the fine, you get sent to the patty line - sold into slavery, basically. Theo works as an evaluator, setting amounts to the crimes committed. One day, someone from his past shows up, Dani Cumali, and tells him how she has evidence against the Company and she's going to blow everything up. And also her daughter got sold as a child and Theo is her father. Then she gets murdered, and Theo decides to continue her mission and rescue his maybe-daughter.
The premise here was great, but I was not a fan of the execution. It kept jumping from past to present to even more past to future to slightly closer past, and honest I lost track more than once about what was going on when, who the characters were and what had already happened. It was also written weirdly, with parts of sentences floating around in the middle of the page, sentences not finished, and lots of swearing.
I had trouble with Theo as a character too, because he basically upends his entire existence for a teenage daughter he's never met or heard about before and isn't even sure is actually his. His motivations seemed very difficult to believe.
I'm disappointed, because I remember enjoying The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August a lot, so I had high expectations for this one, but it was not my cup of tea.
The premise here was great, but I was not a fan of the execution. It kept jumping from past to present to even more past to future to slightly closer past, and honest I lost track more than once about what was going on when, who the characters were and what had already happened. It was also written weirdly, with parts of sentences floating around in the middle of the page, sentences not finished, and lots of swearing.
I had trouble with Theo as a character too, because he basically upends his entire existence for a teenage daughter he's never met or heard about before and isn't even sure is actually his. His motivations seemed very difficult to believe.
I'm disappointed, because I remember enjoying The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August a lot, so I had high expectations for this one, but it was not my cup of tea.