The Windup Girl
2009 • 359 pages

Ratings153

Average rating3.7

15

I ended up DNFing this book. I might return to it at some point in the future, frankly I don't like abandoning books, but I found the story difficult to follow. Imagine all the politics of Game of Thrones, except much less interesting. Also set in a future dystopia where there are environmental disasters, food shortages, and artificially engineered people. I was listening to the audiobook, but with about 6 hours left I realized I had no idea what was going on and decided not to continue making the effort. There were parts I liked, but overall I felt that plot sometimes felt secondary to world building and detail. With hundreds (ok...maybe even a thousand) books on my TBR, I can't be wasting time on books that bore me, and this one did.