Identity Crisis
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4.1 • 96 Ratings
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
Why are we all so hostile? So quick to take offence? Truly we are living in the age of outrage.
A series of apparently random murders draws amiable, old-school Detective Mick Matlock into a world of sex, politics, reality TV and a bewildering kaleidoscope of opposing identity groups. Lost in a blizzard of hashtags, his already complex investigation is further impeded by the fact that he simply doesn’t ‘get’ a single thing about anything anymore.
Meanwhile, each day another public figure confesses to having ‘misspoken’ and prostrates themselves before the judgement of Twitter. Begging for forgiveness, assuring the public “that is not who I am”.
But if nobody is who they are anymore - then who the f##k are we?
Ben Elton returns with a blistering satire of the world as it fractures around us. Get ready for a roller-coaster thriller, where nothing - and no one - is off limits.
Customer Reviews
Exhausting....
I have bought many books by Ben Elton and had enormous enjoyment from them. Then after a decade I read Time and Time Again - a very different book that held me cover to cover. It seemed a distinctly seasoned and mature time-traveling story. So I enthusiastically tucked into this, his latest.
It many ways it is a return to his earlier contemporary social-comment world that take a big fat dig at whatever is eating him at the time, which should have been interesting this many years on. However it is so over-cooked with sarcasm and cynicism that there was no room for a coherent plot of any interest.
I only made it to the half-way point - and that seemed to take forever - so for the first time I have given up on a Ben Elton book.
But as I have said the previous novel was extremely rewarding... so I’ll still keep an eye for his next.
Worst Elton I’ve read
Deeply disappointed with this offering from an author I’ve always enjoyed. I bailed on this at about half way, something I rarely do.
It was so frustrating & I found I didn’t care about the characters or the outcome to continue.