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The Blue Kind
The Blue Kind
The Blue Kind
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The Blue Kind

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In Neom the laws of physics are lax and everyone still gets high. The city squares do it so they can keep working non-stop. The hipsters do it so they can accept things as they are and not how they want them to be. And for a thousand years, Alison has done it to cope with the burdens of immortality. If you can't die, she says, at least you can be as stoned as the living dead.

So begins The Blue Kind, a dystopian drug-fantasy that unfolds in the apocalyptic debris of an all but unrecognizable American city. In the wake of Drug War II, all the soldiers have become dealers and all the women have become collateral for the intoxicants they both peddle and pop like Skittles. But a powerful new drug is rumored to top them all, one that will fix everything wrong with Alison's life, but one that is cooked and sold by her fiercest adversary: a dealer who threatens to destroy her entire world.

Brimming with a rich and labyrinth plot, indelible characters, and an unforgettable ending, The Blue Kind is as wild a ride as they come: a free-wheeling read about the cycle of addiction that is, itself, addictive.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateNov 15, 2012
ISBN9781609090678
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    I don't know what it feels like to be high, rather than perhaps the haze of being drunk magnified quite a bit. However, I feel like this book makes you feel high, or perhaps makes you feel high and having someone try to talk to you about important things while you are. I really hope that's what the author was shooting for because that's nailed perfectly. My mind is in a fog right now. A very dense fog where I can barely see my hands held out in front of me. I'm confused and grasping for something without knowing if it's actually there. That's what this book does. It's written in first person. What makes that tiny fact so interesting is having a narrator who is constantly high because she's trying to deal with a long (immortal) past filled with regrets, the inevitable fact that she will continue to live while the world falls in around her, and a drug system leaving her dependent on someone else to actually get those much-needed drugs for her to space out and forget all the troubles around her. You pretty much fall into her mind and live her highs as she's living them, bringing with it all of her confusing thoughts and actions. It's written in such a roundabout way that you are confused at what things mean, leaving you in a fog until finally an answer or explanation arrives down the line (or perhaps it doesn't ever arrive) and then the fog dissipates the tiniest bit.I might equate it to reading a person's autobiography where chapters have been shuffled around and doing so while drunk. It's a little hard to get past and certainly made it a hard read, but it made it such an interesting one. My mind is in overdrive trying to come to conclusions about some things and having no one to discuss them with. Similar, really, to Allison and the rest of Neom's citizens since secrets are like currency. I guess I'll just have to let it go since the laws of nature really don't apply. (view spoiler)Anyway, I don't think it matters since it seems the true importance is for Allison to explore her dependence on Cory and how she feels about it and how she reacts to her own realizations. What can I say about that without really telling you truly important parts of the plot? It's such a short novel and truly is fast paced that everything plays a vital role in Allison's and the other characters psyche. This is truly one that cannot be explained through review without intense spoilers. You're going to have to read it to understand it and what an amazing journey that is.

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