The most frightening thing of this near future story is that, what the author tells us is not something so impossible that it couldn’t happen.

Nikolai Sidorov, Nick, was born in Australia but from Russian parents, and when he was 20 years old he was expelled by his home country for a stupid misdemeanor. At the time the country was starting to fear there wasn’t enough food reserve for the “real” Australian, and Nick wasn’t considered as one. No matter that Nick didn’t know anything else than Australia, didn’t speak Russian or that he was studying to become an architect, that he had friends, and family, there, he wasn’t a citizen.

Now he is back for the funeral of one of his best friends from the past, but not only the country has changed, also his remaining friends have, above all Daniel, the boy he had a crush at the time.

This wasn’t a comforting story, it was unsetting, a little frightening, and in the end, bittersweet; it doesn’t give you answers, on the contrary, it opens questions, some of them you are even scared to have an answer to. Good tension and short sketched but deep and interesting characters, I think it would be good to see them fully developed into a novel.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BTGI6FU/?tag=elimyrevandra-20

Considering this book is centered around a funeral and the devastation of the Australian (and global) way of life, I felt very little connection to the story or the characters. It seemed very dry and emotionally disconnected. ( )

Considering this book is centered around a funeral and the devastation of the Australian (and global) way of life, I felt very little connection to the story or the characters. It seemed very dry and emotionally disconnected. ( )