A review by _annabel
Slow River by Nicola Griffith

3.0

Interesting sci-fi, there wasn’t a lot that was sci-fi in the book and I’m not sure the sci-fi aspects were necessary for the story. It is about an incredibly rich young woman who has been kidnapped and finds herself trying to survive in the underclass. She meets up with a drug-dealing, thieving, hacking woman who helps and heals her after her kidnapping. The rich woman is gradually dragged further and further into the thieving woman’s ways. She ruins her other friend’s lives for money. The book is saying that it’s a choice to chase money and you can still survive without resorting to using everyone around you.