Review: Eldorado, Wow.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 18, 2013
Eldorado, by Jay Allen Storey, is a well written dystopian novel that takes place in a future that is most likely only a few generations away, which is truly scary.Close your eyes and imagine a life in which most of the fossil fuels are gone, and the small amount that is left is priced so out of the average person's budget that it may as well not exist. Imagine how life would be. No longer will we be able to just run down to the supermarket and buy our food. Most likely we will either grow it ourselves or buy from a local farmer, if we are lucky enough to have a job. Try to think of any industry that would not be decimated. It's hard to think of one, isn't it?The author has done a great job of creating this world on paper. His characters are well written. My favorite character, and surprisingly, the character most important to the development of the plot is Zonk, the dog.The action is fast, and the development of relationships between characters is even faster. sometimes too fast. But the shocks and surprises that abound make this book more about the plot as a whole rather than those relationships. But the plot and the backdrop of this book are so well written that they are completely believable, which makes this a page-turner. Read it for yourself!