Review: Wonderful sci-fi tale....
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 11, 2014
The author, David Bruns, gave me a copy of this novel in exchange for my review.There is menace lurking in the constant watchfulness and connectivity of The Community. This complex world is like a clear film layer over our own potential future. Everyone is the same. Everyone is connected to and monitored by The Community. There is no freedom of expression or freedom to marry the person you love. You are attached to your genetic match and if you’re approved to have children they are bred in The Hatchery until old enough to go home with their parents. Maribel and her genetic mate, Reese, are approved for children. One of whom is born without the acceptable pale skin, white-blond hair and light eyes and should be slated for “recycling” but he is saved by a doctor who wishes his parents to raise him so that he can be observed and studied. It seems the twins are special in a way suspected by but not shared with their parents.As happens within the genre, there is a bit of a cautionary edge to the story. The Community is built of government regulations gone out of hand. The Orwellian overtones are clear. Those who feel fear live in fear from the frequently traumatic and deadly induction into the Community.“Irradiance: The Dream Guild Chronicles – Book One” is a fascinating read, first page to last.