Never let Me go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
I stay with it because I want to find out what happens to the main character and so I suppose the author has achieved his goal: making me stay interested enough to keep reading.Duh. The style is a bit irritating because it’s written from a female point of view and I don’t feel convinced by Ishiguro’s voice that I am reading about a feminine experience rather than a man writing as a woman. I guess that is hard to do…
Perhaps his voice is secondary to the lives he is writing about. I can’t say much because it would be easy to give it all away. And this book really depends on slooowly unveiling certain truths and facts to the reader page by page.
The plot is a unique premise and he manages to bring it off without getting too science fiction on us. I’m not done, though so maybe there’s a big spaceship/coccon/lab experiment gone bad waiting for me at the end.