The book doesn’t even start and we already love it because the disclaimer goes like:
“This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental or an act of God.” - Matt Adcock
HA!!!! That’s how you keep it original! HA!!
So, in an over-polluted, over-populated, over-heated planet called Earth, in a not so far away future, we have L2, a “replica” of London filled with tech, air toxins and regulations of all sorts from a government that is led by an authoritative, extremely shady figure that is as cold as ice caps. This leader, Razour, is… nefarious, mean and quite charming as it seems, not afraid and quite contempt when using brutal force to get his means, or just have fun given that he commands the military forces in a highly policed society.
Cleric20, our main character, is a regular – ex-military – , ordinary citizen of L2 city, that is just trying to live his life and forget his loved one that is no more while getting drunk and laid almost everyday with the always present companion bot, GiX, that is kind of the soul of the book.
Things start rolling off great, and everything is just dandy, until, a few scientists find the “footage” of the prophecy of “The Day of Carnage”, promised on ancient biblical times, more than a thousand years back. Such footage, is enough to doom all that have seen it, bringing death, or better saying: annihilation to all that might be related to such incident, that is sent directly from the high members of the World government, but the question is: Why?
The narrative of Matt Adcock is inviting and the author can create many types of imagery simultaneously which is very nice. Although there is lots of tech-lingo, the author is careful enough to explain each term that might present itself too complicated for one to understand, while others are instantly recognizable to the reader.
Humour is something that you won’t miss here, and there’s the deliberate use of profanity – not excessively present- which is something good, given that the book promises to defy convention and create shock. Violence and gore are taken as a walk in a park as the writer doesn’t shy away from describing vivid scenes of rolling heads, cut throats, energy shields that shatter bodies completely and much more from the very beginning.
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