Name: Flavia Louise's review of Capital * Ome * by John Lanchester
Item: Capital * Ome *
Rating: 2
Author: Flavia Louise

John Lanchester

The residents of Pepys Road, London - a banker and his shopaholic wife, an elderly woman dying of a brain tumour, the Pakistani family who run the local shop, the young football star from Senegal and his minder - all receive anonymous postcards with a simple message: We Want What You Have. Who is behind it? What do they want? As the mystery of the postcards deepens, the world around Pepys Road is turned upside down by the financial crash and all of its residents' lives change beyond recognition over the course of the next year. From the bestselling author of Whoops! and How to Speak Money comes a post-financial crisis, state-of-the-nation novel told with compassion, humour and unflinching truth.

Capital * Ome *

Danu Poyner

Flavia Louise

** spoiler alert **
           Leg me start by saying that this was required reading for my English class. I have that weird thing where my opinion about a book being required reading is always corrupted...
But whatever...
This book has quite a few flaws...
First of all its length, now I don't really have a problem with long books, but for the amount of plot or lack there of, this book could be half its length
Second the sender of the letters, in the beginning of the story there is a certain suspense to who sends the letters and DVDs but by the point you find out that has gone away.
Third the descriptions which just are too long and get boring.

BUT OVERALL: The story is alright, I like it showing a variety of people in a variety of different situations.
Actual rating: 2,5-3/5 stars

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