Book Review - Never Let Me Go

One thing is for certain: Kazuo Ishiguro is an amazing writer.

I liked this book a lot, but I didn't love it. It drew me in and kept me interested. The plot is revealed slowly, and mysteriously. One big problem I have with it, however, is that the clones (yes, clones) never once consider the option of rebellion.

From what we can glean from the novel, there are legions of them, all raised in different environments, ranging from very barbarous (as we learn later in the novel) to very sheltered (like the English boarding school, Hailsham, where the main character Kathy was brought up). Considering that before Hailsham most of these environments were, in fact, very undesirable, it would seem to follow that, if these clones were as "human" as the novel makes us believe, there would have been some sort of uprising.

Instead we get a kind of morbid acceptance. Kathy, especially, seems to lack the spark needed to make her a truly compelling main character.  Never Let Me Go is problematic, but worth the read.