#TopTenTuesday Ten Things I Loved About… The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks #TuesdayBookBlog

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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Ten Things I Loved About [Book Title], a topic suggested by me!  The book I’ve chosen is one I read a few months ago, The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks. I could have come up with lots more reasons why I loved it but here are just ten:

  1. Set in 2030, it depicts – through the medium of fiction – the havoc that extreme climate change might cause, including changes to our lifestyles and limitations on our freedoms
  2. It explores the various ways society responds to those who are different: acceptance, curiosity, exploitation, intrusion, prejudice, fear
  3. It is about the unconditional love of a parent for a child
  4. It poses the ethical question, just because you are able to do something does that mean you should? 
  5. It highlights the danger of what can happen when technology, power and wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few individuals
  6. It brilliantly evokes what it’s like to be a person who is uniquely different from everyone else
  7. As well as dealing with serious issues it’s also a moving love story
  8. It taught me a lot about the evolution of our species
  9. The ending left me with tears running down my cheeks
  10. I had the opportunity to tell Sebastian Faulks just that before he signed my copy of the book at last year’s Henley Literary Festival

15 thoughts on “#TopTenTuesday Ten Things I Loved About… The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks #TuesdayBookBlog”

  1. So glad you enjoyed this. I do like Sebastian Faulks’ books – Birdsong is one of my all time favourites – but passed this one by as I’m not generally keen on books set in the future. Perhaps that was a mistake!

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    1. It’s not so much in the future that it feels vastly different from today and the things that happen feel like they could happen now, unfortunately. One of the comments in my review was ‘Don’t let Elon Musk read this book’!

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  6. I thought maybe this was the book the movie was based on but in researching I don’t think it is but this sounds like a good read. Thank you for sharing.

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