jarulf's reviews
137 reviews

I'm very much a mood reader, I pick books to read depending on how I'm feeling. I'd just finished Red Sister and Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence and wanted something different. The Last Children of Tokyo was in my pile, and yes. Different.

It's such a slim volume (and beautiful), and I read it in bits and pieces over a day, mostly between house chores, but I had trouble getting drawn in. The sheer inventivness and the strangeness of this changed world the author depicts is fantastic, the characters and their peculiar situation interesting, but I was at all times aware that I was reading. I'm not sure this was because of the writing style or more due to the mood I was in.