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The Word Exchange (2014)

by Alena Graedon(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0385537654 (ISBN13: 9780385537650)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Doubleday

review 1: I think this could be a good discussion for a book club, because its about the devaluation of the written word while simultaneously being very well written. Well at least part of it. Much of it is in gibberish, which is the effect of the word flu epidemic unleashed on this alternative future. This book loses a star for the chunk written in gibberish that relied on melodrama for the reader to figure out the intent.
review 2: I found the semi realistic scenarios of word flu a fun cautionary adventure. the story does lag mid way through the book and instead of a heroin coming out in the end, we instead have a co dependent woman who survived, but never really comes into her own. The Alice in Wonderland references get pretty thick in the end. I feel the author coul... mored have used some of her own metaphors to make the point. overall 4 stars for the cautionary dystopian ideas it works with, two stars for story development. less

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