Trees and animal life (except for humans and locusts) have died out. The world has gone to seed in just about every way possible. Howard builds from a pretty standard dystopian formula with the evil corporation GenTech, but the world itself is like nothing I've ever read before. Dialect done wrong is a miserable reading experience, and I think Howard takes a marvelous approach. Thus, he clearly gets across the sound of the characters without making Rootless any less readable. Howard manages to establish that Banyan speaks in dialect with the use of words like "reckon," but keeps it to a minimum. The writing is beautiful, perfectly matched to Banyan and to the world itself. I definitely like Rootless and I'm very impressed by Howard's debut, but I'm too easily confused by science for it to be the perfect book for me.įirst off, I want to praise Chris Howard's writing to the skies. The writing is beautiful and the characters are unique.
Rootless by Chris Howard is a true dystopian/post-apocalyptic novel set in a nightmare landscape. As happens from time to time, I've read a book that is wonderful, but that does not work perfectly for the kind of reader that I am.
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