Never Let Me Go is a sci-fi thought experiment presented as a fictional autobiography. The narrator is a young woman remembering her upbringing at what appears to be a boarding shcool. She spends most of the novel describing interactions with the other students, both at the "school" and in their lives afterwards. There is a bigger picture that the narrator doesn't see, and some of it is gradually revealed over the course of the novel, and then spoon fed to the reader in one of the final chapters.

I didn't like this novel very much, mainly because of the narrator, an immature girl who is (forgiveably) unreliable but (unforgiveably) dull. Most of the gutwrenching horrors that have been performed on her are only hinted at, because she herself has no context in which to see that they are horrible. I hated the inclusion of the "reveal" at the end, and would have liked it much better if the big picture had been metered out over more of the novel. Ishiguro succeeded at making me think pretty deeply about the tacit subject matter, but he failed to create a book that I can recommend.