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It certainly is a very gothic tale, although I'm not sure I could call it horror. Regrettably, the author seems to get a little confused as to the message he's conveying - is it a fable about society's class structure? Every time I thought I understood where he was going, he twisted it around or it became a little nonsensical. Given the story's ending, I'm not sure that was his intention.
Parts of this novel quite annoyed me - I'm no prude, but there were some totally arbitrary points in this book which were included simply to shock or disgust, without adding anything to the story whatsoever. Almost felt like the author was pressured to add them in at the insistence of his editor to turn it into "horror" ;-)
All in all - great if you're into gothic, eerie, dark atmospheric stories. Lovegrove has written a much better novel which you'll like if you're into the concept of the Hope - check his book called "Days".
while the sense of scale is never really an issue to the stories at large (a five by two by one mile seafaring vessel? even using only 3000 vertical feet, with levels each a generous 10 feet high, you're looking at 300 decks each about 10 miles square--that's some 3000 square miles of habitable surface area, folks; this horrifically huge living area just never comes across and the story comes off instead as taking place on nothing larger than your average liner, not an oceangoing world of steel) , the writing is sharp and the dialogue is natural and the characters are well-observed.
this is a true gothic. decadence and decay reflected in the decline of the ship and of the society she contains, this is one dark and stormy night journey you'll likely remember if for no other reason than that the premise itself is just plain strange and not just a little original.
definetly worth the price of admission.
It certainly is a very gothic tale, although I'm not sure I could call it horror. Regrettably, the author seems to get a little confused as to the message he's conveying - is it a fable about society's class structure? Every time I thought I understood where he was going, he twisted it around or it became a little nonsensical. Given the story's ending, I'm not sure that was his intention.
Parts of this novel quite annoyed me - I'm no prude, but there were some totally arbitrary points in this book which were included simply to shock or disgust, without adding anything to the story whatsoever. Almost felt like the author was pressured to add them in at the insistence of his editor to turn it into "horror" ;-)
All in all - great if you're into gothic, eerie, dark atmospheric stories. Lovegrove has written a much better novel which you'll like if you're into the concept of the Hope - check his book called "Days".
