CommonBookSense: Book Review: In Vitro Lottery (Ed Ryder)

In Vitro Lottery

by: Ed Ryder

Genres: Drama, Dystopia

"We are the last natural generation Kate. What happens next will be in the hands of others."

Decades after the Norwegian Death killed over half the world's population, the children of the survivors can only reproduce via complex fertility treatment. Some can afford it, but for everyone else in a vigilant and isolated Great Britain, there is the In Vitro Lottery.
Kate is happy with her own small existence working in a coastal power station, but when her numbers come up and tragedy strikes she is sent on a collision course with the clinic head Victor Pearson, the political pressure group IVFree and the Government to answer two simple questions: who really controls the future and how far will they go to protect it?

A dark and dystopian tale, In Vitro Lottery explores the consequences of when desire and grief turn to obsession, and asks at which point do scientific ethics end and pragmatic necessity begin?

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In Vitro Lottery, was very interesting, and is definitely one of those books that make you wonder if it will one day become our reality. The story kept my interest piqued, and the characters were well developed, but I had a really hard time reading this one. Like seriously, a reallyyyyy hard time, and I'm afraid that it had more to do with bad editing, rather than, it being poorly written. In a typical week I read between 3-5 books.....this book took 8 days all by its self. There are a lot of run-on sentences, or sentences missing commas, so I found myself wasting a lot of time rereading. I'm not one to typically comment on bad grammar, punctuation, and/or editing errors, but in case I couldn't go without saying something. I read for pleasure....it's an escape that should NEVER feel like work, and this book felt like work.

So, although In Vitro Lottery is an interesting story, I can't help but feel that many people will give up on it prematurely.

**UPDATE: I'VE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH THE AUTHOR AND I'M EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THAT IN VITRO LOTTERY IS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING RE-EDITED.