Julia

Adds an interesting dimension to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, but I kept wondering if it's more than fan fiction here. Tends to read rather slowly in the first half, but picks up toward the end as you increasingly anticipate the climax you already know about from the original novel. It was kind of fun to live in Orwell's world again; recurring high points of Newman's story are the passages that parallel scenes from Orwell's—it was fun to see the same lines delivered from this other perspective, and felt like I was traveling along this other narrative thread that wove in and out with Orwell's from time to time.