A Book Written By A Ferrett

Hello there. Hope you're feeling well today.

As I wake up early this morning. Where the daylight has slowly begun to make an appearance and the clocks have gone backwards an hour, I listen to the headlines and continue to wonder whether the world has gone backwards as well as news comes out of the shooting in the synagogue in America, Trump, the constant mess that is Brexit as well as the tragedy of the helicopter crash in Leicester last night.

And I could go on.

But whilst we should not try and avoid the troubles around us, for that would allow evil to triumph, we should also not forget the quiet little pleasures that help us through life. For readers one of those pleasures is to randomly pick a book up from the your local library and enjoy it.

So let's introduce the book....written by a Ferrett.

The Uploaded - Ferrett Steinmetz

Now the world it produces is not a pleasant one, for the living anyway. For a digital heaven has been created for the dead to enjoy life. However to run this heaven life for the living is not so great, not helped by the plague that has been inflicted across the world. Some of the living fight against the dead, who watch events in through monitors.

This is barest essence of the plot that I could make without spoiling things. But in no way does it explain the plot nuances that occur throughout this brick of a novel. Yet despite the twists Mr Steinmetz still takes you along without feeling lost. You, the reader, feel involved.

I think the key is this. For once the blurb in a book was right in comparing Mr Steinmetz to Philip K Dick because both are capable of creating worlds seemingly fantastical at the time (in Mr Dick's case seemingly closer to being realistic now) but when you're actually reading it seems perfectly normal.

I'm not saying it's the best book I've read this year. But for the award of being pleasantly surprised with two months to go it certainly wins that so far.

Until the next time.