Zoo City, chapter 1: all you need to know

Lauren Beukes is looking like being one of those authors I just have to follow. I read the first chapter of her second novel, Zoo City, today over lunch, and within those few pages, however badly hyphenated on my Kindle app, despite having to read the very first line twice, I was:

engrossed by her world: a touch of dystopia with magical totem animals

familiar with her character enough to know I give a damn: touched by magic, with a nasty past and not a lot of future

intrigued by the story: there’s a mystery here

engaged by the writing: economical dialogue, and prose that’s to the point but with just the right amount of opinionated, fetching description.

Mission accomplished, then. Unless the book takes a swerve into Stupid, I’m on board. I greatly enjoyed her Moxyland, a multiple point-of-view thrill ride. I can’t wait to see where Zoo City takes me.