Review: Strange future
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 21, 2010
Ann and her half-Arab boyfriend, Peter, go to Europe to explore and Ann is the typical college student...in love, alternating between deep feelings and superficiality, and very self-involved.  Her world and, in turn, the rest of the world starts to crack apart, when they both meet a fun Dutch couple and stay the night.  Waking, they find their guests butchered and then...Peter coolly tells her to touch nothing and leave.  They flee and soon Ann comes to believe she may not know her lover as well as she thought.  Could he be an underground Muslim extremist?  The Dutch assassinations start the long slide to religious war.  Some of the premises are very hard to buy....that Ann was not a "person of interest" due to her relationship with Peter, relentlessly interviewed and hounded, that the Muslims have infiltrated US culture and are preparing the downfall of the US.  Yet the suspense of finding out where and what has happened to Peter following his arrest and disappearance, keep up the interest.  The ending, well, can't say I believe it based on the character development. Overall entertaining read, but an alert, the politics, although fictional, may be offensive to some readers.