Fever
Reading this off the back of a Planet review that called it an inventive and engaging debut I am afraid to report that I was disappointed - somehow it story just didn't come together as a convincing whole.
It is populated with larger than life characters which should have given vigour and interest but they seemed mostly to be fairly thin and so lacked any believability. Also there were a number of sub-plots, for example about the central character's grand mother, yet they weren't developed to the extent that they added depth and so served only as a distraction. At just under 120 pages I think it would have been better if it had be edited down into a good short story
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