Firstly, I’d like to thank NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for giving me a free e-ARC of The Rain Artist.

If there’s something, this novel proves that maybe you do have to judge a book by its cover.

I have never read something as gruesome, yet beautiful perception of our future up until now. This novel was almost borderline horror, because it is scary to think about how we need to buy absolutely everything for our future only for corrupt people to take advantage of our money… Well, to be fair, it does happen already, but the novel tackles it in an even more gut wrenching way. 

Honestly, I don’t really like books set in the future, but this really did it for me. The Rain Artist critics capitalism in a way where it’s easy to break down yet so detailed while also being metaphorical.

However, I do think that the novel is too short to cover such heavy topics, so I do wonder if there are going to be following novels after this to build a series.