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Reviewed by me as part of Rosie Amber's Review Team
This is a post apocalyptic dark comedy.
The USA has become the Shattered States and Cassidy's mission is to
drive across America to scatter her mother's ashes over the Golden Gate
bridge, as per her dying wish. To help
her on her way in these dangerous times, she enlists the help of serial killer
Lloyd.
Crossing Bedlam is an amusingly written book with lots of good one
liners and observations that I appreciated very much, and some nifty
characterisation, but for me the combination of a post apocalyptic world and
comedy didn't mix well enough to be a real page turner. I could have done with a little more
background in the first instance; I felt with this one that I'd walked into the
middle of a film. The only other
negative for me: the way the narrator kept referring to Cassidy as 'the
blonde'. Why not just 'she' or
'her'? Archaic at best, sexist at worst
~ I didn't notice any of the men being referred to as 'the brunette' or 'the
redhead'...!
If a slightly off-the-wall comedy dystopian novel is your thing,
you'll probably love this, as it's clever in many ways; I imagine if I was
thirty years younger, male and American I might have enjoyed it a lot more! It's a book I can imagine going down well
with guys who like playing Xbox games about these type of scenarios.
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