Review: Adult Dystopian Fantasy: Take a Flight on the Phoenix
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 5, 2014
Adult Dystopian Fantasy: Take a Flight on the PhoenixPhoenix, Theta Waves: Episode 1, by Thea Atkinson, is not only a dystopian fantasy. It's also a psychological thriller."No one in New Earth cared about such trivial things as morals, ethics, even the old-fashioned notion of sin. It was back to the primeval concerns of eat, sleep, forage, fornicate, and if all that was taken care of, you moved it up a notch. Steal, kill, use, assault. Same things really, just on another playing level, like some kind of warped Dante's inferno high on a gob of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs."In the gritty black-and-white of the post-apocalyptic world, drug-addicted Theda plies her craft amid the rubble-strewn streets and sidewalks. Because use of her talent is punishable by death, Theda must practice it in secret.When Theda notices a stranger watching her for days, she thinks she's been caught using her talent. When the man saves her, she's not sure if he's her salvation or her doom.Prolific author Thea Atkinson paints a New World dark in realism and human misery, in which humanity has lost God and found Lucifer. The first installment in the series is compelling. Take a flight on the Phoenix.