First and foremost: WOW. This book is lyrically gorgeous on par with "Station Eleven," exploring the beauty of humanity even in an abandoned world. Arnold's writing is a poetic, lush experience, populated with realistic and kind characters.
And then: the plot begins twisting and unfolding and doubling back on itself, and I realized how exquisitely structured the story is -- like Arnold's last novel, "The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik" (another favorite of mine), reality is what Arnold makes of it. His mind obviously works on a whole 'nother level of perception and it awes me.
I'm still not sure if I entirely understood all the ins and outs of "The Electric Kingdom" (I can tell I'll be pondering it for days yet, and probably re-reading it), but I know for certain that I LOVED it. This is David Arnold's most beautifully written, high concept and ambitious book and I'm legit-no-hyperbole in awe of it. Finishing it actually left me speechless.
And then: the plot begins twisting and unfolding and doubling back on itself, and I realized how exquisitely structured the story is -- like Arnold's last novel, "The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik" (another favorite of mine), reality is what Arnold makes of it. His mind obviously works on a whole 'nother level of perception and it awes me.
I'm still not sure if I entirely understood all the ins and outs of "The Electric Kingdom" (I can tell I'll be pondering it for days yet, and probably re-reading it), but I know for certain that I LOVED it. This is David Arnold's most beautifully written, high concept and ambitious book and I'm legit-no-hyperbole in awe of it. Finishing it actually left me speechless.