A lovely review of Les Monstres on Les Pipelettes en Parlent “Ce que j’apprécie par-dessus tout chez elle, c’est son originalité. Lorsque vous lisez un de ses romans, vous êtes assuré de ne rien lire de commun. Si Les monstres semble de prime abord ne pas correspondre à cette qualité, je vous assure qu’il n’en […]
Pages Podcast did an one hour long review-discussion of Broken Monsters, which plays like a smart, incisive two person bookclub (complete with interfering cats). You can watch it here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6WM-Ekf5vU
The New York Times 26 October 2014 has a corking review of Broken Monsters (featuring art by one of my favourite illustrators, Francesco Francavilla). “An enormously satisfying novel that employs the best attributes of multiple genres to dramatize big ideas about art, the Internet and urban decay.” Here’s the review in full: The serial […]
I’ve been so close to Broken Monsters for so long and it was such a fraught and difficult book to write, it’s hard for me to see it objectively or even clearly, which makes these amazing reviews particularly gratifying and humbling too. * “Never exploitative, never superficial, never uncomplicated: Beukes shows how horror can be the […]
Broken Monsters got a killer review in The Sunday Times (South Africa) today, along with Sarah Lotz’s The Three and Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon. Michele Magwood writes: “This one adds gasoline… Beukes has a way of inhaling cityscapes and breathing them onto the page… [the images are] hard to shake, intensely, viciously wrought.”