Review: Exciting and thought provoking
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 13, 2014
What would you do if the world you know and love was destroyed by storms? What kind of world would you want to build in the aftermath? And how would you react if the new world you grew up in turned out to be very different to the one you thought it was?These are the questions asked of the two main characters of Paradigm, Ceri A Lowe's brilliant dystopian debut novel. Told half from the point of view of Alice Davenport, a young girl determined to survive as London is destroyed, and Carter Warren, a young man who is a contender for 'Controller General' - the leader of the community that forms after the end of the world.I love science fiction, and this book didn't disappoint in providing a compelling near future society and technologies that are well thought out and described. It also has fully formed, realistic characters, plenty of action, horror and excitement. If you like animals, be warned that there are some really heart breaking moments concerning them in this book. I found it tremendously sad that there are no companion animals in the Community.Ceri A Lowe weaves Carter and Alice's stories with great skill. Their lives intersect in interesting ways, despite living so many years apart. The pacing is excellent and it is very hard to put this book down. I can't wait to read the second book in this series.