My reaction to any Andrew Caldecott’s book is “I don’t know what’s happening but I know I’m loving it”.
I don’t know if I would be able to summarise the plot of Momenticon and there’s a lot going on and everything makes sense in a sort of non linear logic.
This book was marketed as the love child of Alice Through the Looking-Glass and Station Eleven. I didn’t read Station Eleven and there’s plenty of references to Carroll but there’s plenty of references to famous paints, The Hunt in the Forest by Paolo Uccello amongst the others. This make me think that Caldecott is a sort of Hieronymus Bosh and something in the plot made me think about The Garden of Earthly Delights.
That said this is an entertaining book, a book full of food for thought as it deals with a dystopic future where people lives under domes and people is being engineered for satisfying production needs.
There outliers are amongst the few persons who live in a sort of independent way
This the start of a gripping and enthralling trip into a phantasmagorical world. There’s a sort of quests, there’re some villains, and there’s some lovely characters life Fogg or Morag.
I loved this book and can’t wait to read Simul, the follow up.
I think it’s a sort of marmite book and may not everybody will love it. But if you try and follow the white rabbit you will have a lot of fun.
Many thanks to Jo Fletcher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine