by Jonah Kruvant
BLURB:
In a futuristic
American society where all citizens have computerized chips in their brains and
insert needles into their veins to enter a virtual reality, Victor Vale leads a
fairly typical life. He is an officer of
the law with greater ambitions, a family man, and a dutiful citizen of the
Nation. Yet when The Chief assigns him a
case to go undercover and expose a community of illegal “creators,” Victor
finds himself strangely compelled to creative writing. For the first time, he starts to question the
world around him, and becomes involved in a web of lies, uncertain of whom to
trust, and unable to distinguish between virtualism and reality. As he searches for answers, Victor slowly
begins to unravel hidden truths about the world, and even uncovers an
astonishing secret from his own past.
In order to prove to
the “creators” that he is genuine, Victor writes a manuscript, at great risk to
his wife and son. When books are banned
and ultimately destroyed, Victor realizes that his book alone has
survived. Only then does the reader come
to a startling realization in a unique narrative twist.
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EXCERPT:
Not long after the Cleansing Act, I was promoted to
Detective. I was thirty-four. I had a wife and child to support. A career to
pursue. My son wanted things, my wife wanted things; hell, I wanted things. I
had worked on the force for thirteen years and it was time I got my detective
badge.
That was all I could see back then. I didn’t care about
creators.
Then I was assigned to the case. But even before I stepped
into the Chief’s office, events began taking shape that marked both the
beginning and the end of a new chapter in my life. It was on my way to the
police station, wading through the unbearable stench of the dirty human flesh
of the Slums, that I began to question things, what I thought I knew about the
world … and about myself.
So this is where I start my story. This is where I begin my
book.
That day, for whatever reason, I felt conscious of my
surroundings. The beggars were pushing each other out of the way to get under
awnings and balconies of restaurants and apartments as it started to rain. The
restaurants were filled with shattered glass, moldy kitchens. The strongest
beggars lived in cramped apartments with cockroaches and termites. The ones
that couldn’t find shelter that morning just lay there, shivering from the
cold. Some would let raindrops fall from the sky into their open mouths. Two
naïve children were chasing each other around bodies and
giggling, cleaning dirt out of each other’s hair. The bright
lights of the skyscrapers, the swiftness of the skytrain, the convenience of
the airpath—all a beggar had to do was look up and he would find himself in a
fantastical world of dreams.
MY REVIEW:
I received a free copy of the book from the author for my
honest opinion.
Victor Vale is a detective in a futuristic society where it
is against the law to be a creator of any kind. The world Victor lives in is
divided into several different classes. Victor himself hit it lucky by marrying
into the upperclass. His wife is a lawyer and is very rich because her father
was a famous lawyer. Victor's world could very easily be our future. In our
world most of us are addicted to smartphones, computers, iPads, tablets,
kindles ect.... Where we have all of these different devices Victor only has a
tiny chip in his body that can do way more than all of our devices put
together. All of this technology is bringing Victor's world down.
In Victor's world it is against the law to write, draw,
paint or do anything that is creative. If anyone is caught doing anything
creative then they will be in real big trouble. More trouble than you can
image. But just about everyone knows that there is a secret society where
people that are creative go to meet and do what it is they love to do whether
it be writing, painting or making a sculpture or whatever. They know it is
dangerous but they still go because doing these things comes from deep inside
of them and they can't keep it in they have to let out or go crazy.
Victor's boss sends him undercover to this secret society to
infiltrate their compound and catch all of the creators and put a stop to what
they are doing. Victor is different than most of the upperclassmen. Most of the
upperclass only care about themselves and making their selves richer and richer
no matter what it cost them or who it hurts. But Victor is not like this and he
doesn't know why he is different he just knows that he is. Victor cares about
the people that doesn't have as much as he does and always wants to help them
if he can. When Victor goes undercover in this secret society he finds that he
is more like the people there than he is with the people in his own world.
I really loved the world that the author has created in The
Last Book Ever Written. It will make you stop and think about where our own future
made be headed if we don't stop and take notice to what we are doing with our
lives. We need to stop spending so much time with all of our gadgets and spend
more time without families before it is too late and we are living in a controlled
society like Victor's. I can't wait to read more from this author and I would
like to read more about Victor and his world. I would highly recommend this
book to anyone who loves a good dystopian/si-fi/futuristic books. It has so
many twist in it that you won't know where you are going to come out next. You
will be flipping the pages so fast that you will think that you are a robot. So
go grab your copy today!
AUTHOR BIO:
A writer,
teacher and student of the world, JONAH KRUVANT received his BA from Skidmore,
his teaching degree from Fordham and an MFA from Goddard College. Jonah lives
in New York City. He is the author of The Last Book Ever Written.
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4 comments:
Thanks for hosting!
Do you write on a typewriter, computer, dictate or longhand?
The premise is so different! I can’t wait to read it! Thank you for sharing and for the contest!
Thanks for the giveaway. I've always got my nose in a book. This one sounds great. It's on my summer reading list.
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