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Sirens
The authorities called it The Moment.
Without warning, without explanation, two hundred human beings on Earth simultaneously gained a new mental ability that would alter the planet forever. They called the power The Glamour and its recipients Sirens.
Alien invasion? Divine intervention? Evolution? Before anyone could work it out, it was too late.
Anthony Graves didn’t want to be a Siren. He just wanted to be liked. Once a shy, suburban London office worker, five years on he is ruler of Europe and responsible for the deaths of millions.
To fight loneliness, Anthony writes his life story. The result is Sirens; a black comedy of how a Nobody unwittingly became an all-powerful tyrant.
Sirens is satire on a global scale; a cautionary tale of absolute power and its inevitable consequences.
You’re going to love Anthony. You’d better.
Without warning, without explanation, two hundred human beings on Earth simultaneously gained a new mental ability that would alter the planet forever. They called the power The Glamour and its recipients Sirens.
Alien invasion? Divine intervention? Evolution? Before anyone could work it out, it was too late.
Anthony Graves didn’t want to be a Siren. He just wanted to be liked. Once a shy, suburban London office worker, five years on he is ruler of Europe and responsible for the deaths of millions.
To fight loneliness, Anthony writes his life story. The result is Sirens; a black comedy of how a Nobody unwittingly became an all-powerful tyrant.
Sirens is satire on a global scale; a cautionary tale of absolute power and its inevitable consequences.
You’re going to love Anthony. You’d better.
333 pages, Hardcover
First published April 18, 2017
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September 15, 2017
One day a strange power is distributed to a few random people around the world. The power to make people fall madly and devotedly in love with them.
One of these recipients is a normal office worker; Anthony Graves. He is not a brave man and if he had not received the gift of glamouring, I’m sure he would have become a sad old man resenting his life and everything in it. However, he has received this gift, and after struggling to come to terms with it, he uses it as any run of the mill dictator would with no regard for anybody else’s life.
The world that he and the other sirens have created still contain the elements that have caused wars and friction throughout history; power, religion and paranoia, and very reluctantly, Anthony has to adapt to this new world to protect himself and his kingdom from the other sirens.
I wished I’d seen a little more of the population’s normal lives because even though I know they lived like they always had, apart from their newfound devotion to Anthony, there was a hint of 1984 darkness about the rest of the population but I think that was just in my head.
Would we all be happier without or own free will if that meant a world without wars and everybody living in harmony? Anthony thinks so, but then again, he would.
I did enjoy the book and would recommend it to other readers.
One of these recipients is a normal office worker; Anthony Graves. He is not a brave man and if he had not received the gift of glamouring, I’m sure he would have become a sad old man resenting his life and everything in it. However, he has received this gift, and after struggling to come to terms with it, he uses it as any run of the mill dictator would with no regard for anybody else’s life.
The world that he and the other sirens have created still contain the elements that have caused wars and friction throughout history; power, religion and paranoia, and very reluctantly, Anthony has to adapt to this new world to protect himself and his kingdom from the other sirens.
I wished I’d seen a little more of the population’s normal lives because even though I know they lived like they always had, apart from their newfound devotion to Anthony, there was a hint of 1984 darkness about the rest of the population but I think that was just in my head.
Would we all be happier without or own free will if that meant a world without wars and everybody living in harmony? Anthony thinks so, but then again, he would.
I did enjoy the book and would recommend it to other readers.
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