Books: Zoo City

Lauren Beukes's Zoo City really really works for me. The female first person narrative voice is exactly my cup of tea. The world-building of the magic fell into one of my sweet spots of "if I squint, I could easily believe the world is already like this and I just failed to notice." I liked what happened with the various narrative arcs (professional, personal, plot, etc.).

Also, it read at the pace of fast. And I wasn't even thrown out of the story by the various cell phone messages, emails, newspaper articles, etc. - normally that kind of storytelling breaks the whole narrative for me because I don't believe that the newspaper articles are newspaper articles in the world etc. and it reminds me that I'm reading a text. Here it didn't - while I was reading I believed that all those emails and newspaper articles were real to the world they covered.

I just finished it on the bus ride home and I can't actually think of anything that didn't work for me - one of those books I started last night and finished today and don't remember breathing a whole lot while reading.