Periodically I will pick up a book that intrigued and this one did. It's out of my norm reading box, but sometimes, just sometimes it's good to step away from favourite genres, and this is not a romance novel.
I don't normally post a book's premise but,
in this case it seems sensible.
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The world continues to let children die every day from thirst and starvation, poisoned water and disease, and the world continues to let the Earth die.
A man, destroyed by the desertion of his wife, comes out the other side and finds a mission. It’s bold. It’s crazy. He’s not totally sure what’s at the end of it but he has to follow it. It’s a terrifying leap away from his world but it ends up being a mission to rescue the very substance of life.
From the ancient Aztecs to the Moroccan desert, Spanish highways to the remote fields of Russia, clues appear, people die and someone gets ever closer to him.
The children, the generation who must eventually find the answer, silently guide him to the truth.
And it’s a truth that will change everything.
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Francine's Review:
Amy’s Square is for lovers of Conspiracy Novels, Industrial
and Military Espionage, or Area 51, (the highly classified US Air Force
facility located on the Nevada Test & Training Range). But forget Nevada,
and put your mind to the Amazon Rain Forest, Morocco, and London, and consider
what in the Devil a rain forest, a desert landscape, and London have in common?
Written from the viewpoint of the narrator who is coping with impending
divorce, and the possibility of a terminal illness, his dry humour and earthy
blue language not only lightens the load of impending tragedy, one cannot help
but feel sympathetic to the man and his dog. And yes, a character who loves a
dog gets my vote before all else.
But what better than a curious mind— a mind that is coming to terms with
the enormity of his eventual demise. How could formerly insignificant signs suddenly
be realised: seriously otherworldly. How he copes is admirable, but when weird
things just don’t add up, taking a few risks to investigate real-time can make no
difference, can it? Be warned, to skype on a laptop or cell phone is a risqué
pastime when poking your nose into secret and mysterious business. In all
honesty this is a gripping story, and albeit I’m a woman, it hit all the right
buttons for a thoroughly enjoyable contemporary read. It’s the sort of book one
can say to hell with the odd typos and missed apostrophes and just enjoy the
book!
