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Lux Desecrata
There used to be Ten Commandments. Now, there is only One: breed or die.
Two clone sisters move through a devastated America bringing Christmas to the last towns in the empty ash and snow and dark. Christmas is the only Law left. Crosses must be built at Christmas. To build your cross you must be worthy to Breed. To Breed you must be Consecrated.
If you can Breed, the Consecrata bring you Light. If you cannot Breed, they take you out back and shoot you.
Lux Desecrata is a cautionary post-apocalyptic fable that starkly imagines the future that would be if the world ended just a moment ago. Faced with extinction, the survivors bring together science and faith, and once-competing dogmas are forced into a dark alliance.
Two clone sisters move through a devastated America bringing Christmas to the last towns in the empty ash and snow and dark. Christmas is the only Law left. Crosses must be built at Christmas. To build your cross you must be worthy to Breed. To Breed you must be Consecrated.
If you can Breed, the Consecrata bring you Light. If you cannot Breed, they take you out back and shoot you.
Lux Desecrata is a cautionary post-apocalyptic fable that starkly imagines the future that would be if the world ended just a moment ago. Faced with extinction, the survivors bring together science and faith, and once-competing dogmas are forced into a dark alliance.
112 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2018
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October 29, 2019
This was offered for free on Amazon and I needed something to read while traveling this week. I read this in about an hour which must be some kind of record for me. I need to process what I just read for a while longer. It was either one of the better more terrifying or most beautiful novellas I've come across.
I don't get the negative reviews. It sounds like people are more worried about complaining about the grammar than actually reading it. Style is as much the story, whether you like that are no and its unfair to review something if you don't finish it.
The story is simple: two girls go from town to town basically working for some weird technoreligion and performing eugenics screenings on young people. You either get to have kids or you get killed all in the name of the twisted religion. A lot of gray here, I liked it a lot! The ending...
I don't get the negative reviews. It sounds like people are more worried about complaining about the grammar than actually reading it. Style is as much the story, whether you like that are no and its unfair to review something if you don't finish it.
The story is simple: two girls go from town to town basically working for some weird technoreligion and performing eugenics screenings on young people. You either get to have kids or you get killed all in the name of the twisted religion. A lot of gray here, I liked it a lot! The ending...
October 29, 2019
Well...
I must day, this is one of the hardest books I think I have read in ages. It takes place 60 or so years after the sh*t hits the fan. I'm not sure what event took place, that fact isn't given, just descriptions of the landscape that makes you wonder. This was hard for me to read strictly due to the grammatical structure used. I made myself finish the story and I will say, I didn't really see the ending coming.
Someone else may read this and love it..unfortunately I can't say I cared for this book.
I must day, this is one of the hardest books I think I have read in ages. It takes place 60 or so years after the sh*t hits the fan. I'm not sure what event took place, that fact isn't given, just descriptions of the landscape that makes you wonder. This was hard for me to read strictly due to the grammatical structure used. I made myself finish the story and I will say, I didn't really see the ending coming.
Someone else may read this and love it..unfortunately I can't say I cared for this book.
March 8, 2020
What a strange read! I feel that this is a book I will come back to and reread. I understand some of the comments about the spelling, but I think the author was trying to show how localized spoken language would become in the After when most people do not travel. Some interesting ideas are presented.Thought provoking certainly, I need time to digest this one.
October 27, 2019
Terrible
Terrible . Just awful. Boring and with spelling that I guess is supposed make you aware that this in now the ‘after’ but is just stupid and annoying. Do not waste your time.
Terrible . Just awful. Boring and with spelling that I guess is supposed make you aware that this in now the ‘after’ but is just stupid and annoying. Do not waste your time.
July 15, 2019
I didn't finish Very strange book with lot of sexual undertones
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