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Note: There are spoilers in this review
Synopsis: The students of Hailsham are different. Their childhood have been spent in a big school in the English countryside, with very little interaction with the cities or people beyond. The only adults they know are the teachers who raised them. The students have always been told that they are special but their unconventional origins are never fully explained. After eighteen years of living in ignorance, Hailsham students leave and start the life they were always meant to live.
Readers get to discover the truth with these characters as Ishiguro never spells out everything at once. Instead the truth is explained in small increments throughout the novel.
Review: Never Let Me Go is a wonderful novel; enthralling, beautifully written, and smart. It focuses on characterization as much as it does on themes. Some examples of these themes are humanity, mortality, friendship, identity, love, and lost.
I enjoyed figuring out the mystery along with the characters. Ishiguro’s writing is beautiful and I just couldn’t put this book down. Aside from figuring out the truth, I loved the characters. The author’s descriptions of the relationship between Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth was rich and very believable; the changing dynamics between childhood friends and the challenge of trying to figure out one’s identity.
