Brave New World

Rating : 2.5

I wanted to like this book I really did. And in fact, I actually did for the first half of it. The premise of the book and the dystopian setting were highly promising but then the execution was poorly done and the closure was extremely bland.

The characters promised to have some kind of depth when introduced but ended up not having any. I ended up feeling extremely unattached to all them and couldn't feel any kind of empathy towards them.

Mustapha Mond promised to be an extremely interesting character. The confrontation between him and John at the end of the book reminded me of the confrontation between Winston and O'brien in part 3 of 1984. But in Brave New World, the confrontation s nothing but a showoff of the wit of the character with smart phrases that end up adding nothing interesting to the story. We don't discover anything new about Mustapha or the Society, nor does it add any value to John's character development.

Lenina's character to me is the blandest, her existance in the book is nothing but a cheap trigger for John's breakdown, which leads us to the weakest point of the whole book; the closure.

The closure of the book, in my opinion, is nothing more but a shock value. It only prooves to me a lack of ideas of where to go with the story.

In the end, I could only see similarities to 1984 but, unlike 1984, the book is poorly executed and lacks depth and a proper closure.