The Sun Casts No Shadow by Mark Richardson

 

Blackness surrounds you, pushing you deeper into the pits of Dante’s inferno. You are choking on the flames as they gather you in their arms. Clawing at you to claim your soul. When all of a sudden you telepathically hear a message “We’ll escape together”

Would you trust a stranger with your life or would you slowly sink your way into oblivion”

The Sun Casts No Shadow by Mark Richardson is a dystopian tale of a society and its people that have been ripped and ripped apart, surviving only by numbing reality with ambrosia.

In Wellington Thorneycroft , Richardson has created a character who is crafty, thrifty, despicable at times but overall a survivor.

Stuck in a walled city with no way out, Wellington scrapes his way by picking pockets and numbing life with ambrosia all while trying to avoid working in the system.  His reality is disrupted when a spectral form (the last of her kind) telepathically reaches out to him and chooses him as her partner in crime to find an escape route out of the city.

Together they try to plot and outwit the controller and try to  unearth their way out of the city.

Talking birds, drugs, dwarf’s, mobsters and a shapeshifter, this book is action-packed through and through. A trippy read that lives up to the name of one of the drugs featured in the book – Skull Crush.

It is below the surface that this book strikes a connect with you. Richardson’s writing has a way of skinning the harsh vagaries of society until you are left with all the broken pieces reflecting the truth within.  A book that makes you question everything.

“What determines who we are?

Is it your actions, appearance, or something deeper and more

profound?

Is there something innate that makes each of us unique?”

An intense read with some visceral descriptions that bring out the animal nature in us, of primal survival.

 

So glad I got this RC it was a thrill to read. Hope you liked my fair and honest review.

Happy Reading☺