Heather's Reading Life: The Dream of Perpetual Motion

Saturday, June 04, 2011

The Dream of Perpetual Motion

The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A surreal, dark fantasy. Thrilling, fascinating, horrible. Great use of language and theme. Beautifully brutal world-building. Confident writing voice that can tell the reader what will happen chapters before describing the journey, heightening, not decreasing, the tension.

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