Lexicon

Reviews / Votes

Brilliantly realised... strikingly relevant... a resounding success * SFX * Gripping... a pitch-perfect thriller, a jetpack of a plot that rocketed me from page one to page 400 in a single afternoon -- Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing Truly original... a crack-paced thriller... smart and tons of fun * Australian * A spellbinding, intelligent read...a freewheeling plot intermeshed with linguistic theory and some genuinely creepy horror set-pieces * Guardian * Dazzling...An intelligent, raw thriller from one of Australia's finest * Booktopia * Highly entertaining and engrossing... characters that are both complicated and likeable * SciFi Now * Insanely good. Dark and twisted and sweet and humane all at once. -- Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls and Zoo City Crazily inventive...Barry's smartest dystopia yet * io9.com * Best thing I've read in a long, long time... a masterpiece -- Hugh Howey, bestselling author of Wool Sophisticated and laden with subtext... clearly reaffirms Barry's status as a gifted purveyor of suspense * Time Out New York * Wonderfully crafted, dark yet humorous, fast-paced and tragic in turn * National * An extraordinarily fast, funny, cerebral thriller -- Lev Grossman, <i>Time</i> Delightfully high-concept...think Noam Chomsky meets Christopher Nolan * Vogue * Dazzling and spectacularly inventive. A novel that jams itself sideways into your brain and stays there. -- M.R. Carey, author of The Girl with All the Gifts Mind-bending...an action novel that nicely exercises the brain as well as the heart rate * Shelf Awareness * A strange combination of romance, thriller and science fiction... The words brilliant and exemplary aren't adequate enough to convey the amazing craft of LEXICON. * Associated Press * The year's smartest thriller * Time *