In some ways this book, Flower of Darkness, is quite different than de Rosnay ‘s previous novels. Though some themes run through this book that are similar, this book is more futuristic.
Clarissa is leaving her husband and looking for a new apartment. This in the Paris of some future time, when everything is automated. You do not have to lift more than a finger to get anything done. A virtual being takes care of you. Just ask it a request and your wish is granted. From cooking meals to answering your emails. Look in the bathroom mirror and your health is checked. But sometimes too much of a good thing can be just that or maybe even a bit more sinister.
Author Tatiana de Rosnay has taken her previous theme of finding out what took place a particular building and brought into the future. In this novel Clarissa loves old buildings. She can stand in a building and the walls seem to speak to her. She can see or feel what happened there in the past. Now she is moving into this futuristic new building where no one has lived before her. She is trying to escape the past. She has left her husband for an unspeakable transgression that she cannot even bring herself to speak about. She is starting over on her own. But when things start to seem very odd, she reaches out to her granddaughter to help figure out what is happening in her building and to her friends.
This was quite a fascinating plot that keeps you on your toes to try and figure out what is happening and stay up to date on the technology and sci-fi futuristic ideas that are happening here. Definitely a future I hope never really comes to fruition .
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