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Wealth-Lite
Our world just got better…
In a dystopian world ravaged by the Silence, in the heart of a class-divided country, events are stirring.
In the poor wastelands of the Subserves, the son of a bookshop owner dreams of a better life. The leader of the Resistance ups her game to fight against the System with a fearsome recruitment drive. Two lost brothers battle for survival as they flee from their perished home. And a stranger arrives in a lifeless city, intent on destroying everyone and everything she comes across.
Meanwhile, in the heart of the rich Benefice, a sinister System agent launches a new initiative named Wealth-Lite Seven…
In a dystopian world ravaged by the Silence, in the heart of a class-divided country, events are stirring.
In the poor wastelands of the Subserves, the son of a bookshop owner dreams of a better life. The leader of the Resistance ups her game to fight against the System with a fearsome recruitment drive. Two lost brothers battle for survival as they flee from their perished home. And a stranger arrives in a lifeless city, intent on destroying everyone and everything she comes across.
Meanwhile, in the heart of the rich Benefice, a sinister System agent launches a new initiative named Wealth-Lite Seven…
216 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 9, 2016
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February 22, 2016
Originally a compelling little drama which I had the pleasure to observe being devised and performed some three years ago, Wealth-Lite's vividly compelling and surprisingly original vision of the future has well survived the transition to prose and retains the bizarrely esoteric tone which made the original so entertaining.
Spence and Child are clearly in the process of cutting their teeth; the narrative is a little fragile in places and the prose has a tendency to overbear. Perhaps because of this, though, Wealth-Lite bears a tone that is at once smoothly gritty and antiquated, a little reminiscent of an 80's crime novel, but not tiring. Wealth-Lite seems to stand at an interesting tangent to the canon of modern literature; aside from a shadow of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror television series, the novel has no clear precedents or inspirations and this lends it a compelling indefinite quality.
Do not read Wealth-Lite expecting refinement; its tone is angry and its craft is unpolished. It has an honesty of opinion, and an accompanying lack of complexity, that better suited it as a drama. It is, however, an interesting and enjoyable read for those seeking something thoroughly different from standard literature.
Spence and Child are clearly in the process of cutting their teeth; the narrative is a little fragile in places and the prose has a tendency to overbear. Perhaps because of this, though, Wealth-Lite bears a tone that is at once smoothly gritty and antiquated, a little reminiscent of an 80's crime novel, but not tiring. Wealth-Lite seems to stand at an interesting tangent to the canon of modern literature; aside from a shadow of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror television series, the novel has no clear precedents or inspirations and this lends it a compelling indefinite quality.
Do not read Wealth-Lite expecting refinement; its tone is angry and its craft is unpolished. It has an honesty of opinion, and an accompanying lack of complexity, that better suited it as a drama. It is, however, an interesting and enjoyable read for those seeking something thoroughly different from standard literature.
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