I've never really picked up a science fiction novel knowingly before. I saw the cover and thought it looked interesting and the blurb caught my attention more. I have an obsession about dystopian books and 0.4 sounds like one, but this book has a twist of being the start of a dystipian society.
The layout of the book is original, instead of a regular narrative, the book is set out as a transcript taken from a analogy recorder. The story is about a town called Millwall and a boy called Kyle Straker. He tells the story about how he was hypnotised by a friend of his called Danny, and how himself and the other 3 volunteers "wake up" to find that everyone in the town has stopped moving.
The phones are dead, the televisions have blue screened and the computers all have a weird language on them. They realise there in trouble. From there the people in the town wake up and starts the journey that the four have to take to work out what had happened.
This book as the feel of films like "The forth kind" and "The blair witch project." as it has the feel of second hand data made into something that'll scare those who watch and read it into believing in that type of thing existing. I enjoyed the book as it made the reader guess as to what is going on with the town. This is the type of book that everyone should read now and again. The only draw back however is that the twist is not very believable.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes things "Based on real events" But what did you think? Leave a comment below!
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