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Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace.
Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future.
The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race.
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What a disappointment
For starters it's less then 300 pages and it took me roughly a month to read it. That says something right there.
Secondly it took me awhile to get absorbed into it and when I finally did it was over.
It was a great concept but it's as if P.D James didn't think it through and explore it properly. As if it was just something to fill in the time, she just didn't flesh it out enough.
Not to mention the punctuation wasn't up to scratch and that annoyed me through certain parts of the story.
Rating : 4/10