Well, I don’t have anything else to read atm so Claire North is in luck!
From the description, I would guess that it will annoy me in the same sort of way as The Handmaid’s Tale and other 'stopias where everyone just tortures one another 24/7. Not that that necessarily stops me enjoying a made-up story, of course.
Writers tend to be self-absorbed misanthropes (it takes one to know one) who imagine that everyone else in the world has limitless time and energy to pick on them personally for no reason, so that’s how they imagine the world going to shit. But I think that’s a bit silly, and I’d like it if novelists could sometimes explore more insightful and believable takes. Like that Gwyneth Jones (although she has more of a shotgun approach, ideas-wise, which makes me picture her owning a lot of cats at times).
