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Title: Not recommended
Review: I enjoy books that do one of two things. They either really entertain me (I'm amused or shocked or fascinated, etc.) or they impart some valuable information or insight. The best books do both. This one did neither.And, as others have mentioned, there are some real problems with the basic premise of the book. The way they go about harvesting the organs seems very inefficient. And why are these people so incredibly passive? There are other questions but probably the biggest one is that we need to imagine that such an ethically repulsive practice could exist in 1990s England. This would have required an alternative history that resulted in a very different England, or world for that matter, and this history would have to be built into the book in some way. But actually, I don't think there's a story here that would have made all that trouble worthwhile.
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