Flight of Shadows
A Novel
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نقد و بررسی
Kirsten Potter's quiet, intense narration continues the futuristic dystopian story that began in BROKEN ANGEL with Caitlyn Brown's escape from Appalachia. Now, teaming up with a streetwise con artist, Caitlyn is on the run from government agents, bounty hunters, and her own future. Even with frequent scene and point-of-view changes, Potter effortlessly differentiates the various characters through her use of accents and timing. As the reason for Caitlyn's deformity and the value of her DNA are revealed, the story introduces questions of science and morality. Potter builds the suspense through her tense reading, conveying the dark mood that pervades this post-apocalyptic world, in which society is divided into strata of Illegals, Industrials, Invisibles, and Influentials--and the government holds all the power. E.N. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
March 29, 2010
Futuristic speculative Christian fiction is rare, and Brouwer (Broken Angel
) does it with the skills of an episodic storyteller that make a reader wonder when the movie is coming out. In a postapocalyptic setting, people live in their cars, called “soovies,” the government has runaway power, and social classes are stratified into Influentials, Industrials, Illegals, Invisibles. When Caitlyn, an Invisible whose life was a government DNA experiment gone bad, breaks free, she is pursued by a bounty hunter for the Influentials. What's darkly horrifying about the book is the plausibility of the story, built on world conflicts in which water causes war, ethicless DNA testing turns a profit, and immigration is intended to create a labor class bordering on slavery. With vivid character description and fascinating details (implanted credit card chips in the finger tips are used for purchases), Brouwer paints a fierce future. The world as he sees it could decay to this dismal degree without the redemption found in the Judeo-Christian ethic and renewed democracy that puts power under people rather than over them.
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