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Book Reviews Title Sucker Fiction-Net
Rating Buy It
From Amazon.co.uk - BUY
NOW! Cover
Story "Sucker" takes
the reader on a warped ride through London and the
lives of four different characters struggling to
understand the meaning of love in the nineties.
They know it's all just a game, even if the rules
are bent and the players less than honest. There's
Bea, the neurotic, who is bred to wed and wants to
win the heart of a man - any man; there's Brian, in
search of an easy life and an easy lay; Mucky
Marcus, the travelling sugar daddy and Nonny, the
finest gameplayer of the lot, who plays by the
rules because she knows it's the best form of
sobotage. Written with
striking originality and quick incisive humour,
Lana Citron's debut novel tears a strip off the
pretensions of 1990's twentysomethings and provides
a blistering insight into the dating game and the
darker fringes of the modern sex war. We
Say The synopsis
above doesn't read like something that's going to
set the world on fire. Twenty-something love lives
in the nineties and set in the hip and happening
city of London. You would be forgiven for thinking
- don't we have more than enough books with that
kind of premise? Well yes, we do. But, believe me,
there is certainly room for a book like this.
"Sucker" is different - it has a style and a tone
all of its own. The prose is fast and clever. It's
also experimental - Lana Citron has not shied away
from incorporating poetry and more weird devices to
get the readers' attention at certain moments. If
this kind of thing is done poorly in a novel then
it can be irritating but Citron uses it
well. The plot itself
is a tangled web - the characters' lives
inter-connect and collide in a variety of
relationships. Citron switches narrative
perspective throughout - Nonny's story is told in
the first person (I saw, I am etc) and Bea's is in
the third person (she saw, she is etc). It could
get confusing but Citron has formed these
characters with such confidence, that you never
miss a beat. The tone for each of them is expressed
clearly - it becomes obvious who is who very
quickly. After all this complexity, the story comes
full circle in a very neat and unexpected way, but
it is probably best not to give too much away on
that one. This is Lana
Citron's debut novel. In my view, she has played
the writing game and won. "Sucker" is one of the
most interesting and enjoyable books I have read
this year. Review by: Rachel
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