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The Race
By Nina AllanPublisher Description
A child is kidnapped with consequences that extend across worlds… A writer reaches into the past to discover the truth about a possible murder… Far away a young woman prepares for her mysterious future…
In a future scarred by fracking and ecological collapse, Jenna Hoolman’s world is dominated by illegal smartdog racing: greyhounds genetically modified with human DNA. When her young niece goes missing that world implodes... Christy’s life is dominated by fear of her brother, a man she knows capable of monstrous acts and suspects of hiding even darker ones. Desperate to learn the truth she contacts Alex, who has his own demons to fight… And Maree, a young woman undertaking a journey that will change her world forever.
In a future scarred by fracking and ecological collapse, Jenna Hoolman’s world is dominated by illegal smartdog racing: greyhounds genetically modified with human DNA. When her young niece goes missing that world implodes... Christy’s life is dominated by fear of her brother, a man she knows capable of monstrous acts and suspects of hiding even darker ones. Desperate to learn the truth she contacts Alex, who has his own demons to fight… And Maree, a young woman undertaking a journey that will change her world forever.
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“The Race was interesting and compelling and yet ultimately unsatisfying.
The difficult bit in writing a novel is tying everything together as a coherent whole and there is a bit of a pretentious trend at the moment for authors to think they don't need to bother.
The Race has a ton of enthralling ideas, badly structured. Just as the first chapter gets interesting, the rug is pulled out from beneath it's feet. Chapter 2 starts to get a little intriguing, once you get over the annoyance of having Chapter 1 stolen, then bleeds into a dull mess of intentional ambiguity with Chapter 3. Chapter 4 gets interesting again then cops out at the end with no real conclusion.
So it gets a couple of stars for being compelling, but I feel cheated out of what could have been a great story.”
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About Nina Allan
Nina Allan has won the BSFA Award for Short Fiction, the prestigious Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, and the Aeon Award. She has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award four times and was a finalist for the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award. The Race is her first novel.
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