Book Review: Universality

Universality
by Natasha Brown
Review by Renata

This novella-length satire investigates the grubby things that breed in the petri dish of media, money and amorality. The story opens with a clickable magazine article that recounts an assault with a solid gold bar, but subsequent chapters question the credibility of the story and its tellers. Brown turns a forensically critical lens on the journalists, bankers and activists wrestling for a stake in the spin-doctoring – and ultimately judges both sides of the political spectrum to be equally self-interested.

If you like your books cozy and your characters likeable, look elsewhere! This author delights in voicing the cynical, sinister attitudes that lie just below the surface of so much populist rhetoric.