Let me preface this by saying I finished the book a few weeks ago, but a week or so after I finished we moved. Thus, I haven't had very much time to work on my review until now.
With that being said, Never Let Me Go did not live up to my expectations and what's sad is I didn't even set very high expectations for it in the first place. For the majority of the book, the story is set in a presumably post WWII era in Europe at a type of boarding school called Hailsham. The story revolves around 3 characters for the most part (Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth) and their discovery of their future societal role.
I thought the book was slow moving and *gasp* bland. There was always a feeling that something was going to happen... but nothing ever did. There was an odd type of love triangle, but not even that got very interesting. What bothered me the most was that the book lacked hope. Don't get me wrong, I don't think every book should have a happy ending, but the characters in this book never really fought for anything different. They asked, they were told no, and they said okay. They basically gave in - letting their futures be determined by a less-than-perfect system.
Every time I read this book I felt as if a huge gray cloud was hanging above my head - they're might have been a few, momentary bright spots, but they were never able to completely shine through to me.
I may venture to rental store and pick up the movie... or I may not.
