<p>"You can't help getting caught up in the smartly-paced story ... which is served up with lashings of steampunk relish."<br> - SFX (UK) </p><p>"Rees makes the book work: the world he's created is a psychopathic nightmare."<br> - The Guardian</p><p>In the Demi-Monde, author Rod Rees has conjured up a terrifying virtual reality, a world dominated by history's most ruthless and bloodthirsty psychopaths - from Holocaust architect Reinhard Heydrich to Torquemada, the Spanish Inquisition's pitiless torturer, to Josef Stalin's bloodthirsty right-hand man/monster, the infamous Beria. The Demi-Monde: Winter kicks off a brilliant, high concept series that blends science fiction and thriller, steampunk and dystopian vision. If Neil Gaiman, Neal Stephenson, James Rollins, and Clive Cussler participated in Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games, the result might be something akin to the dark and ingenious madness of Rees's The Demi-Monde: Winter.<br></p>
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A damn good escape during the dog days of summer..
Ah, I have my summer read! Much has been done with futuristic cyber thrillers but none has blurred the lines of the digital and biological worlds like this one! The author nails it in a thoroughly entertaining romp through the interstices of DNA and Data with new and old despicable characters playing out parts both programmed and not. The Demi-Monde is an encapsulated virtual Earth with the worst of behaviors sporting their own Tribes and rituals. Familiar ground is covered here with twisted plots and new clothes towards a larger thing unfolding, always keeping you slightly off balance.There is the action but what I've found fascinating is the Swiftian like satire of human behavior and word play Rod uses to parse it all out. Despite the dark dystopian landscape of humanunkind, I've found myself at times acknowledging the tragi-comedy of human history as Ella travels within the Demi-Monde to save the world. I thank Rod Rees who has the impressive resume to go along with some damn good writing, for an imaginative reprieve in a hot and busy summer! On to The Shadow Wars Read more
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