2006-09-21 Like a movie!

There's no doubt about it: this book is a dangerous fiction novel. It deals with the take-over of Europe (by religious Radicals) and a nuclear attack on the USA.

As soon as you start reading it, you're in it! It reads like you're watching a movie. It's written in such a way that you don't waste time on endless pages explaining what the character feels. It reads fast and easy. It's written that way... I can imagine that this doesn't appeal to people who expect difficult phrases and a plot that hurts the mind. But don't forget that it's a fiction novel. The book is written clear and simple and I loved it. And hey: when I read fiction, I want to step out of this world for a while and that's exactly what this book does.

When I said that the story is dangerous I meant exactly that. The author, W.G. Van Dorian, emigrated from Holland to South America not to fall into extremist hands. I believe him. Sadly, these kind of extremist can't take any criticism, not even from a fiction novel.

The story is very interesting and scary. It's a pity that the editing is not a 100%. Some errors have slipped the filtering there but I must say that this didn't effect my enthousiasm reading the book because of how the story develops and the tension it builds up as it progresses: Van Dorian somehow integrated the past (Holocaust) with the present (birth of religious extremism) and transferred it to a possible future you don't want to be in! (Like a nuclear Iran). It was hard not to read another page before turning off the light.

If this is part one...I'm curious already what part two brings. A good fiction novel!

Petra Reemus