Most of this book was brilliant. I loved the ideas and concepts.
In a world where your wealth relates directly to your size and the poor live infear of being trodden on or eaten by cats whilst the rich tower over everyone in mansions 100's of feet tall.
The story follows a family of "little-poors" in their quest to earn enough "munmun" to scale up and grow to a better size.
Their father is killed by a rich kid who didn't watch where he was going,the mother was left severely injured in a cat attack.
Leaving Warner and Prayer,siblings, to go out into the world and try and make their own way.
It's all written from Warners perspective and uses his voice and dialect in the writing, there were times when I had to say things out loud to work out what the word was suppose to be(in a good way) because you get so engrossed in the character but he doesn't understand grammar or spelling.
We go on a whirlwind ride of people in different lives of different sizes interacting and the mysterious bankers overseeing everything and scaling people up or down depending on their cash flows.
Quickly realise that it's not good to be little but being massive has it's problems too!
And then there's a dream-world, a shared state everyone visits when sleeping where there is no sizes and you can influence people in a un-subtle Inception type concept.
There's a lot going on in the story and a number of twists and diverging characters . With prison,gangs and just snobby people you can see some clever comparisons with our own society and I'm finding it difficult to explain these in a way that does it justice.
It's thought provoking in places but very entertaining, it doesn't overtly break the story to make a political statement or anything like that.
After all of that the ending came as a slightdisappointment really, it felt like the author had got a bit lost and decided they'd finish the book then and there. I reached the end wondering if that was it but in a bad way, some plot lines were left unfinished and given the care and interestign concepts the rest of the book showed It seemed hurried.
It was almost as though the final summary chapter had been removed or something.
Having said that I did really enjoy this book for the most part and would definitely recommend it to others.
As with some of the other reviews on here I completely agree- Amazing concepts, slightly blemished execution
In a world where your wealth relates directly to your size and the poor live infear of being trodden on or eaten by cats whilst the rich tower over everyone in mansions 100's of feet tall.
The story follows a family of "little-poors" in their quest to earn enough "munmun" to scale up and grow to a better size.
Their father is killed by a rich kid who didn't watch where he was going,the mother was left severely injured in a cat attack.
Leaving Warner and Prayer,siblings, to go out into the world and try and make their own way.
It's all written from Warners perspective and uses his voice and dialect in the writing, there were times when I had to say things out loud to work out what the word was suppose to be(in a good way) because you get so engrossed in the character but he doesn't understand grammar or spelling.
We go on a whirlwind ride of people in different lives of different sizes interacting and the mysterious bankers overseeing everything and scaling people up or down depending on their cash flows.
Quickly realise that it's not good to be little but being massive has it's problems too!
And then there's a dream-world, a shared state everyone visits when sleeping where there is no sizes and you can influence people in a un-subtle Inception type concept.
There's a lot going on in the story and a number of twists and diverging characters . With prison,gangs and just snobby people you can see some clever comparisons with our own society and I'm finding it difficult to explain these in a way that does it justice.
It's thought provoking in places but very entertaining, it doesn't overtly break the story to make a political statement or anything like that.
After all of that the ending came as a slightdisappointment really, it felt like the author had got a bit lost and decided they'd finish the book then and there. I reached the end wondering if that was it but in a bad way, some plot lines were left unfinished and given the care and interestign concepts the rest of the book showed It seemed hurried.
It was almost as though the final summary chapter had been removed or something.
Having said that I did really enjoy this book for the most part and would definitely recommend it to others.
As with some of the other reviews on here I completely agree- Amazing concepts, slightly blemished execution