It’s
the week before the annual Pay Day when strata positions are decided by the
controlling corporations. The social media feed is frenetic with people trying
to boost their influence rating while those above the strata and those who’ve
opted out pursue their own manipulative goals.
Amber
is ambitious. Martin is burnt out by years of struggling. She cheats to get
what she wants while he barely clings on to what he has.
Set
in a speculative near-future London, Fluence is a satirical story of aspiration
and desperation and of power seen and unseen. It’s a story of control and
consequence. It’s the story of the extremes to which Amber and Martin are
prepared to go in these last ten thousand minutes before Pay Day.
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25790116-fluence
My Review :
This book will lead you to a different world or I can say a dystopian world, where people compete with each other on social medias for fluence points. These points impact on the colors and those colors states the individuals life style including with whom they will socialize with. The status of each individual change once in a year .e. on pay day.
The book centralized on two main characters; Amber, a clever, socially bright and focused girl and Martin, who is towards downfall and struggling. I liked them both as both seems quite strong. The author did an impressive job by portraying the story beautifully.
I'll give this 4 out of 5 stars for unique story line, well developed characters. This book is highly recommended to all dystopian fans.
Author's Voice :
I write novels and flash fiction that are designed set off small firecrackers of thought to light the world slightly differently inside your head!
I've been a hippie-punk, a religious-squatter and a bureaucrat-anarchist; I thrive on contradictions and am a great believer in being slightly askew from the crowd. There are all sorts of ways of doing that - by being on the fringes of society, by travelling to other cultures or simply by being tipsy during the day.
I write contemporary dystopian fiction set in a recognizable near-future. I love taking reality, nudging it out of kilter and seeing what happens.
Like each and every one of us, my perspective of the world has been affected by many people and experiences: as a teenager I was heavily influenced by the ethos of punk; in my early twenties I embraced the squatter scene and then joined a religious cult, briefly; I did some computer stuff in what became London’s silicon roundabout; and I’m now a civil servant with a gentle attraction to anarchism.
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