Review: The Girl with All the Gifts

Pin It

The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



I'm having a hard time coming up with a way to review a book that I don't want to ruin by giving away a single detail. The book sleeve duped me, as it did many others, leading me to believe that it was about some little genius girl in a secret prison facility. And, I guess it was.... but that's not even the start of it. The author did something very interesting - and quite brilliant - by not really letting the reader know what we were getting ourselves into. The cover shows nothing but a yellow background with the silhouette of a young girl with her arms outstretched. It could have been about anything. I was so drawn by the lack of explanation that I put aside my long list of other books I need to read and put this one next to my bed.

The book is absolutely brilliant! Without giving away the story or even the genre, let me just say that this is a book that totally rejuvenates a subject that has been beaten senseless over the last few years. It is so original and refreshing that I was like a giddy little kid, or perhaps like a teenager getting to first base for the first time, while I ravaged its pages. I gobbled this story up with fury!

The story is terrifying (as it promises) in so many ways... and none of those ways will I speak of because it will be your pleasure to discover them when you pick it up and read it the first time!

After reading 'The Girl With All The Gifts' I was so excited that I immediately had to scramble online to try and discover who the real man is behind the pseudonym M.R. Carey. The author's biography on the last page makes it seem as though he is trying to be uber-secretive about who he is... and as a comic geek, I needed to know who this man is (as the bio claimed that he is a Marvel and DC comic writer). After a very short search, it appears that my mission was unnecessary as M.R. Carey isn't much of a pseudonym at all. The author is Mike Carey (whose middle name I assume starts with an 'R').

Let's just say that this is sure to be a huge hit when it eventually hits shelves in June 2014! It proves that tons of life can still be squeezed out of a genre that has been worn pretty thin. I can't even express how much I loved this book!



View all my reviews