Lauren Beukes is one of the more interesting new writers. I loved her previous novel Zoo City (my review) but was so-so on her debut novel Moxyland(my review). So, I was excited to read her new novel, The Shining Girls, which has debuted to stellar reviews and has the most interesting idea I’ve seen in a while (time traveling serial killer). Beukes has grown as a writer and each book is leaps and bounds better than the previous one. So let’s go meet the Shining Girls.
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Moxyland by Lauren Beukes
After reading Lauren Beukes debut novel Zoo City(my review), I decided to move onto her second novel Moxyland. The book is very different and it threw me a bit. Where Zoo City had a mystery plot as the main thread connecting the book together, Moxyland is more of a mish-mash of scenes containing the four main characters. I’m not sure I liked the book as much, so let’s delve in and figure out why.
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
I’ve been hearing great things about Lauren Beukes, so I decided to grab her two novels. The first one I read was Zoo City and can see why everyone was raving about it. Her work is original and, being set in Africa, a much different setting than most other science fiction. The setting alone would make the book an interesting read, but Beukes’ writing makes the novel well worth reading. So, let’s step into Zoo City and see what’s going on.