FauxVille

The author very graciously sent me a copy for my reading enjoyment. The paperback is a nice quality with some thicc pages. 

In this scifi debut, I was pleased to feel refreshed with a new take on some very science fiction threads. It is both well written, and simply written, which to me is one of my favorite types of reading. 

To me, this definitely felt like it was pulling from elsewhere out in the world, but not at all in the negative way. It is like a futuristic-Slaughterhouse-Five, with elements of Fight Club, Otherworld, Ready Player One, 1984, I, Robot. It touches upon all of these different elements whilst not being like any of them. For spoilers sake, that's about as far as I will go!

One thing that was a little shell-shocking—as an American—was to read a futuristic story where from multiple perspectives, America, now called the Anarcho-Capitalists (or Ancaps), are the bad guys. No redemption story or redeeming qualities, just outright bad and in the wrong. I of course know my country's history, so it's not like I don't understand it, or that it's any kind of stretch, but just to read a perspective like that was very different for me. However, with the story being multilayered, the enemies are everywhere, so look out! 

There was a change added in part three that made the ending more concise. Therefore, there is less room for confusion overall and it helps it all come together. The narration by Dan Matha was fantastic. Damn that man has a deep voice. 

Absolutely worth your time, effort, and money to acquire and read this one.