Book Details
Format: E-Book, 318 pages
Publication: January 27th 2022 by Brown Dog Books
Synopsis: When the collapsing began, in a system where scarcity was a commodity, there was always a need for the unemployed, the homeless and the hungry. When most people could no longer afford consumer goods, there were riots. The rulers called it an attack on democracy.
The riots were met with militarised, armoured police. With falling tax revenues, companies took over financing the police, so the police increasingly functioned as capitalism’s own Praetorian Guard; sometimes supporting rival business leaders, sometimes bringing about their demise, and all the while living standards fell and the state started to crumble.
For Esme Sedgebrook, growing up in the provinces, there is no future other than an arranged marriage, motherhood, and domesticity, fleeing to join the uprising is as much about personal transformation as it is political.
My Thoughts
Rating: ★★★★☆
I love dystopian novels, and the premise of this one was extremely interesting. I was excited to be invited on this book tour, and I couldn’t wait to jump into this one. As expected, I really did enjoy this; it held my attention from start to finish!
I loved the author’s writing style. It was so easy to get lost in this book, and everything just flows nicely! I’m interested in reading more from him!
Thank you LiterallyPR for the gifted copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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Meet the Author
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Ross Patrick was born in the Scottish enclave of Corby in the English East Midlands. When the Steel Works started shedding jobs he moved with his family to rural Leicestershire. Introverted, Ross drifted through a grey school of tired buildings and lingering temporary classrooms to provincial universities at Leicester and then Norwich, the University of East Anglia, where he studied Literature, having previously studied History.
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