Genre: Dystopian/Thriller
Description:
“It happened here. Fascism came, wrapped in the flag and carrying a
Bible.
Nobody much noticed.
Sure, a few traitors like to whine about their missing ‘rights,’ but
it's up to the heroes of the Federal Bureau of Patriotism to silence them.
When someone starts spilling FBP secrets, Captain Leo Nergali is
assigned to track him down. But wait, Leo himself *is* the mole? Record
scratch!
Buy this fucking book to see how Leo censors the arts, disappears his
enemies, and perhaps even finds jackbooted love.”
Author:
Stephen Kozeniewski is the author of numerous
books, in multiple genres. His books have been nominated and won awards,
especially in the horror genre where he even won the World Horror Grossout
Contest two times. He, his girlfriend, and their two cats live in Pennsylvania.
Appraisal:
The dystopian genre takes a political direction, typically something
that someone has tried recently, and imagines a long slide down that slippery
slope, taking the idea to an extreme point and imagining what it might be like.
Sure, the idea of the slippery slope as a sure thing is a fallacy, but one of
the things that makes it a fallacy is imagining what would happen if an idea is
taken too far. That’s what this story does as well.
In this story way too many things are policed way too strictly,
forcing people to believe (or at least pretend to believe) things that they
really don’t, having to conform to what the government leaders prefer. I found
this interesting as I imagined this story world and what it would be like. How
would I react? Would I conform? (If I didn’t, I’d probably be dead, so wouldn’t
be around for long.) If I did conform, would it seem normal or okay? What would
I do if I started having second thoughts? What are the odds of the US or some
other country in the world evolving to something resembling what is depicted in
this story? This book obviously got me thinking about what might happen if some
changes go too far and how I and others might react. That’s the point of the
genre and this story did it well.
Buy now
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FYI:
Obviously this has some adult language. Just looking at the title
should tell you that.
Format/Typo
Issues:
My copy appears to be an advance reviewer copy, so I can’t gauge the
final product in this area.
Rating: ****
Four Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate word count: 80-85,000 words
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