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Literary Fiction Review – A Window Opens by Elisabeth Egan

December 31, 2015 by Tahlia Newland

Literary Fiction Review – A Window Opens by Elisabeth Egan

Literary Fiction Review - A Window Opens by Elisabeth Egan When Nicholas discovers that he hasn’t made partner in his law firm, he quits, leaving the family facing an uncertain financial future. His wife Alice decides it’s time to get a full time job and give up the part time job that she loves and that allows her to spend plenty of time with her children.  She gets a job with an innovative new company and feels that she is, at last, back on career track. The window of opportunity has opened and she plans to make the most of it. The excitement soon wanes, however, when the company takes a new direction, one Alice doesn’t feel comfortable with. That, along with her father’s waning health, puts a lot of stress on Alice and she discovers that there are more important things in life than a high powered job and the status and money it brings. Early in this book I wondered how long it would hold my interest because I seemed to be reading about the uninspiring day to day details of a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Literary fiction, Reviews Tagged With: A Window Opens by Elisabeth Egan, Book Review, book review blogs

Fascinating Dystioian fiction: ‘Future Prometheus: Emergence & Evolution’ by J.M Erickson

March 4, 2014 by Tahlia Newland

Future Prometheus: Emergence & Evolution by J.M Erickson is a fascinating dystopian story about a world after a virus has sent all sexually active men on a violent rampage that ends up with most of them, and a large proportion of the female and child population, dead. The events in the book occur 140 years after this event and follow Melendez, a soldier, who, along with some APs  (androids) wishes to re-establish a society based on the values of the old USA. He's been in stasis in a cyrogenic tank since the disaster, though he was supposed to be under for only four months. A group of androids find him and bring him back. They become his friends, and he develops a program to bring them to sentience and eventually to sapience. He finds himself in a matriarchal, lesbian society. The women keep their boy children only long enough to harvest their sperm when they reach maturity, after which the women take them outside their megastate and kill them. Some girls are also discarded - the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dystopian, Reviews Tagged With: Book Review, book review blogs, dystopian, Fantasy novels review blogs, Science fiction

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