'The Change: Tokyo - Noriko's Story' by Guy Adams is the sixth and final book in a very strange series of novellas.

In a world suddenly changed, it seems no major city is untouched. In Tokyo, a girl named Noriko is running from the Electric Samurai run by HA/HA and being controlling the city. Noriko navigates a strangely transformed city full of Fire Ghosts and Puppeteers.

The six books in the series are primarily linked by weird events happening. We never find out why or if things will go back to normal. The characters are not as memorable as the weird world transformation, but it's an ok series.

The Change by guy Adams.
TokyoNoriko's Story
Where Were You When The World Changed?This is Noriko. See her run. See her run for her life.
A good read with good characters. I do like this series. 3*.

This is the sixth and final novella in the Change series.
Set in Tokyo, and starring Noriko (a very good protagonist), it's another enjoyable, entertaining novella.

This was my tied favourite of the three, told as if from around a campfire, we hear the tale of Noriko as she battles through the post-Change streets of Tokyo, under the watchful, ever-growing presence of HA/HA as she tries to find her parents. We encounter electric samurai, Kaiju and even shadow puppeteers(that were quite unsettling) and that is just the beginning.

I was almost sad to be leaving this part of The Change world.

I love this series so much, and this is such a wonderful addition! I didn't actually realise how much I loved this series until I saw this book was out!

Again another in this series I didn't like, just found them all a bit silly

After how disappointed I was with book five, I was extremely hesitant going into this installment. I’m happy to report though that I worried in vain. Book six, The Change: Tokyo proved to be a fast paced story that kept me intrigued. The setting and characters were quirky and fresh, while the action held true to that of the original books. A thoroughly enjoyable, short read!

Thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for this review opportunity.

Compared to this rest of the series, this book is likely the best. It has the most detailed plot with some of the best character development. Yet just like with the rest of the books in this series it still needs more work. The plot needs thickening and there were some rather glaring plot holes. Also, a side note, I do not understand how this is the conclusion to this novella series. If Guy Adams is bringing out a full length novel with these characters then its perfectly understandable to just introduce them and then leave them there. However, the two previous books in this series had no real point as they did not further along the plot or the characters. So if this is the end, period, then I will be incredibly disappointed.

This series does have a lot of promise but, sadly, as yet it has not played off fully.

Again this book was ok and it was the final in the series. I think this leaves too many unanswered questions for me. This series has so much more potential and I think it is a shame that so many story lines are left hanging...

This "last" installment in The Change (I say "last" because it just can't be okay!?) features a whole different character and a completely different narrative too, told as a story, to us the readers, about Noriko. Set in Japan, Tokyo, it follows Noriko as she sets out to find her parents. In a Tokyo now run by an AI HA/HA she comes across encounters with strange people and things and what she discovers will leave you feeling sympathy for this character.

This novella ultimately starts and ends with this character with no further cause for her, her journey being over. It was a quick, light and enjoyable read.

NARRATION/VOICE
The style of narration in Noriko's Story isn't for everyone. Some prefer a book's narrator to keep his or her thoughts directed within the page. However, the narrator in Noriko's Story seems to reach outside of it to speak to the reader, telling us what to feel and what it is feeling. This is intriguing but risky.

ABOUT THE STORY
Noriko's Story is about... well, Noriko. The story setting is that of a dystopian Tokyo where a rogue AI, unsuitably called HA/HA, has taken over the city and running it as humanely as a psychotic AI can.

The spine of the story features Torino's quest to find her parents who had been missing since the beginning of HA/HA's coup. Through her eyes, we explore the harsh ways in which HA/HA manages Tokyo and the lives of the people living under its rule. Apart from HA/HA's efforts to capture humans who are outside of its rule (Toriko included), the book also shows us some of the feats of the rebels trying to survive and fight back. Surprisingly, there is also a sprinkle of disgruntled robots not happy with the HA/HA's style of ruling who are also rebelling the only way they know how.


CONCLUSION
Noriko's Story is a blend of sci-fi and fantasy. There is also a bit of fighting, killing and such. The narrator's voice takes some time getting used to, but it is not boring by any means. For me as a reader, this book serves more as a starter rather than the main meal. Noriko's Story does more to set me up for what is to come rather than making a big deal of what is happening. A fairly interesting book.

Noriko's Story is published by Solaris. Many thanks to them for the review copy.

The Change Tokyo is completely different than the other novellas of the change in the best kind of way! It was great to see a place that still thrived after the change had occurred.

The fact that from the outset HA/HA seemed like a perfect ruler but as the book goes on the reader realises that all is not as it seems definitely makes it absorbing to read.

The reader is sure to feel for Noriko and her journey through the book is emotional and adds to the compelling nature of Tokyo.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who likes a different take on the dystopian genre.

*ARC received from publisher via netgalley in exchange for an honest review*

This was probably my favourite of the six The Change novellas. I loved Noriko, and I'm so happy that the series ended without an open-end. I feel like it gives an answer to the rest of the series, which I'm incredibly happy about. I also liked how this book was completely different to the other five books in this series, as London, Paris and New York (presumably America in its entirely) had fallen to chaos, whereas Tokyo had a ruler, and a system by which to live. I also really liked the narrator, and while we don't know who the narrator is, I thought that he was pretty good.