Friday, November 14, 2008
Scarlett Thomas - Bright Young Things
Edgy, extremely readable and rather pleasing, if fairly insubstantial and well short of what was to come in the form of PopCo and The End of Mr Y. I think that Annie is pretty clearly the 'Scarlett' character in this one; I guess she was the one with whom I most identified, too, though I suppose I must reluctantly admit that there may be a certain amount of Jamie there too (Paul's not ridiculous either, but clearly further off than either of those other two; Thea, Emily and Bryn, in the meantime, are right off the radar as far as that particular game goes). Yup, pretty cool.