The Detainee: A Big Beautiful Book about Hope.
The Detainee by Peter Liney was a book that came to my notice when I was reading the Kindle blog – I was extremely intrigued by this post and decided I had to read the book. Something about it set me off – thinking and wanting badly to read about this dystopian society. So the wonderful folks at Jo Fletcher books obliged me (you guys are simply the best! And not because you sent me the book but you always come up with such amazing books!) and sent me a copy when I landed in California. And I gobbled this book up in two days flat. So the word dystopian sets off a particular image in your brains. (For those of you who love Dystopia as a genre – here’s a 2014 list .) About a ruined landscape, rotting environment or the polar ice caps melted down and the most common, a nuclear holocaust. But with The Detainee, don’t expect a romp through a nuclear wasteland and a band of survivors tripping through the abandoned country-sides and empty yawning highway bridges of the world. No ...