Review: Decent Dystopian Tale
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 9, 2012
I want to start of by saying that dystopian style stories are at the top of my favorites list when it comes to books, and that is one of the main reasons I wanted to read this book.  This genre never seems to let me down.  The beginning of Muterra, by R. K. Sidler, is very different from the usual for this category.  There is no virus attempting out man kind, there is not zombie apocalypse, or even a nuclear war aftermath.  Muterra follows two groups of survivors and how it is that they are still here.  One group has housed themselves within an underground military compound in Colorado, while the other has found a safe environment that was untouched by the destruction.  The government chooses a man by the name of Keith to become this superhuman project of theirs that would be able to explore the earths surface without the consequences of the radiation.  Keith uncovers a conspiracy and when he makes it known that he will not stand for it, he is banished to keep it from going public.  Once banished, Keith takes refuge in the "safe zone," and when the government finds this zone, the story begins to truly unfold.I have to say that the book was very interesting.  I would have liked it better if the characters had a little more depth to them.  Keith's character is the one character that the author chose to expand on the most, but I feel that the story line lacked in that there was no real connection to the characters.  Another thing that kind of turned me off of the story line is the amount of grammatical errors within the text.  All in all, I enjoyed the story, but it did lack a little.