Review: Dystopian Novella
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 30, 2013
Book Description: None on Amazon. It is a dystopian novel in which emotions are filtered, causing people to walk around with preset feelings. Detective Mulligan Burke is the last human without the filter. He is brought in to find the missing, and possibly dead, Prophet Defiance.**I received a copy of this book in exchange for my unbiased and honest opinion**Review:General: I think the world created in this novella is truly entertaining. I would love to see it played out in a grander scale. The themes; social dysfunction, emotional control and governmental control work wonderfully in the world he has set up. I enjoyed the idea of implants but was quite lost in the beginning and had to read it over more than once before I was able to pinpoint that they weren't robots, but were humans that were simply brainwashed to an extent. Also, while I found the world extremely compelling the stream of consciousness writing used is not one I am a fan of. I found things a little choppy, bouncing back and forth and a little hard to follow.Characters: Burke: I found Burke quite compelling and was smirking at many of his one liners. But it may have been simply because the others had no emotion. I loved the contrast between himself and the others but at times the sarcasm became a bit overwhelming and I found myself not enjoying his dialogue. However I think he was a fantastic character within his world.