Stewart, Sean - Passion Play
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oyceterOstensibly Passion Play is a sort of a mystery/thriller set in the future, but, like good sci-fi, it eventually uses all the building blocks of its particular universe in the solving of the case and making the entire book larger than the sum of the parts.
It's set in a future in which there is a Redemptionist Presidency, and America has suddenly gotten much more religious. I particularly like how Stewart doesn't give us a brain dump about the future society. Er, at least, I didn't notice one, but then, I do like exposition a lot. But it is interesting that I can't go on and list various factors about the world, because Stewart very much limits it to Diane Fletcher, the person in charge of solving the mystery.
I also rather like where he takes the idea of being a shaper, an empath, and how over time, all emotion becomes duller and duller because of the overload.
Good book, short and makes every page count.
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minnow1212's review
It's set in a future in which there is a Redemptionist Presidency, and America has suddenly gotten much more religious. I particularly like how Stewart doesn't give us a brain dump about the future society. Er, at least, I didn't notice one, but then, I do like exposition a lot. But it is interesting that I can't go on and list various factors about the world, because Stewart very much limits it to Diane Fletcher, the person in charge of solving the mystery.
I also rather like where he takes the idea of being a shaper, an empath, and how over time, all emotion becomes duller and duller because of the overload.
Good book, short and makes every page count.
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