Hello my dear friends! Players and staff that you are accessing the blog for the first time! Today I come with another book review of a Brazilian book I was impressed! I had the pleasure of meeting the writer on the book Biennial, before that, we talked just by facebook. So, we conducted a literary exchange that, for me, was very satisfactory and as you know, now I have the book autographed * - *
Well, you already know him! Certainly! Vitor Hugo Ribeiro, a Brazilian writer that lives in Sorocaba, had already published books like Átron and The Quest, but in this year, published his best work. The Apocalypse's Apostles isn't conventional and I confess who I was surprise with the visible maturation of author that, still, is in continuous development.
I don't like compare books, so, because of this, I will just say that in relation of Átron, Vitor Hugo gave a important jump toward his apex of creation. It's visible that author has his registered mark composed of unusual stories, lots of blood, action and SI-FI touch. I believe he was better and happy on his choices when decided to base this book in our time and haven't advanced so much in time, like in Átron, in the future years.
In fact, the Apocalypse's Apostles happens in 80s. More especifically, 1984. I must note that time in this book is extremely well marked and all the main story unfolds on a weekend. Earlier we have the presentation of a group of systems analysis's freshmen that are beginning their studies at ICCA, which brings us to a trivial story of young university students, but that isn't what awaits us.
Ricardo (the author loves main characters names starting with R! In Átron had Rodrigo.) and his friends, unpopular nerds to the female audience, are A-1 students and they were happy to look at Andressa, the most beautiful student of class, while studied. They had everything to do well in college, but on a visit to the "CPD" to program Cobol in Cobra computer, Ricardo discovers a secret passage leading to a steel door. Startled, he decides to tell to his friends, Heleno and Pencelle, but when they returned to the place, they find nothing. Thus, Ricardo is called crazy, and no one imagined that such a discovery would cause so many problems.
Intrigued by what happened, Ricardo starts searching about the place and discovers through a gentle secretary that the ICCA building, in the past, was occupied by the Apocalypse's Apostles, an evil cult that was exterminated by the government. The building was sealed and years after, renovated, giving way to University.
Nadia, one shy skinny girl from Ricardo's room, is the only one who believes him and so, she goes to the CPD look for the secret passage and also to find. But Nadia is bolder and hear screams behind the steel door, takes off sprinting for help finding on the way Ricardo, Heleno, Pencelle, Andressa and her friend Karina who, together, decide to call the police that found nothing in place.
Believers are right, the group of students finds out too much and start an exciting adventure through the underground of Campinas, where death is the last thing that should worry.
Death, mysteries and situations beyond bizarre, The Apocalypse's Apostles takes the reader to laugh, to intrigue and want to know more! What's behind that door? What a college director and an important businessman have in common? And most importantly: who, after all, are the Apocalypse's Apostles?
This all just find reading the entire book! Well, now we leave for the actual examination. About the narrator, it is in the third person and has multiple neutral omniscience, that is, the narrative focus constantly alternates, but the narrator doesn't intrude in the story, it is limited to narrate the facts above, which in this case, causes a sense of dynamism. The plot is engaging and it be brief, you can read quickly. About space, I must say that if you are claustrophobic, you will feel that way when reading the book! But that, of course, isn't a bad thing. The author maintains his fast and minimalist writing style, don't attend to numerous details, but in this book, he was able to be clear and don't sound nonsense.
In fact, it is even favorable in many instances. Cannibalism theme was something that surprised me a lot, but I believe that was exploited in the course of the work, however, found that there was an exaggerated "massacre" for a short period of time. Does the "people" were not thinking about the consequences of their actions when leaving throwing around? This caused me some discomfort and I thought: But our ... Another ?! I think death, in many cases, serve to make the most exciting book, but too much and without a plausible explanation, it is rather cliche.
Another point that caused me discomfort was the repetition of the compound name of ALL characters ALL the time! I don't think this is necessary and sometimes, takes the book's fruition. For example, why refer to "Andressa Melina" and "Nadia Bruna Oliveira" all the time? Because there isn't other Andressa and another Nadia, the reader already understands we're talking about. So is the hint for future books, I don't know, may be only annoyance mine, after all has readers and readers, but for me it was exhausting while reading. It is something to think about.
On the revised text was almost perfect. Passed very few details, like a letter here, a dash there and there space. Anything that "harms" the reading or "skip to the reader's eyes", that I guarantee.
Other than that, I have nothing to talk about. It's a creative book that is worth reading and if you are SI-FI lover, is on the right book! I believe this issue much like the male audience, but the way it was approached by Vitor, will tickle both boys and girls, young people and adults. In another words: Greeks and Trojans!
Anyway, these are my honest thoughts about this very engaging Brazilian Book that came to mark your space, surely!
And now I'm leaving, my dear! Until next time!
#xoxo
