Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Review: The Innocent's Story by Nicky Singer
Diane Samuels finds that Nicky Singer's new novel, The Innocent's Story, never takes off:
The many passages describing the firing of the synapses of the brain become repetitive. The result is a stilted and claustrophobic atmosphere that makes reading the first hundred pages a chore. The second hundred pages become more intriguing, especially towards the end, but the story never quite takes off or carries the reader with it... I longed for relief from so many passages of prosaic point-raising and of being told flatly what was happening rather than being allowed to experience it with the characters...
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