Paranoia Agent

Since his eighteen years, Joe does not know that the war, as he calls the conflict hidden from all that opposes two enemy clans; this conflict for which leads the children to hate and kill others because they are evil and they, the Good. Joe is at the service of "good". The people he kills are bad, at least, is what he has been taught from a young age and although he sometimes questioned is its sole future prospect ... But arrival of Maria in her life will shake up everything in which he hitherto believed. He will be stronger than Love Paranoia?

Despite this summary that could leave you predict a bleuette in which the hero falls in love with a girl that will change his world and encourage him to deny everything in which he believed in the name of love (you know the drill I think) The Children of Paranoia is primarily a breathless narrative, hard and adults that it is difficult to let go. From the first lines, we are immersed in the daily life of our hero: Joe, a soldier struggling in a conflict which all ignore the true origins. Killing is his job, but his only chance of survival in a world where it is to track down before being hunted. Thus, he describes the internal struggle in which child it was dipped and whose rules escape us.

This first novel by Trevor Shane got me thinking about a Between Dogs & Wolves (Malorie Blackman) for adults. The characters are realistic and engaging. The author's style is simple but effective: the narrator is none other than Joe, who tells his adventures as a newspaper he wrote to Maria. Thus, one easily feels the doubts and fears of the hero. The world evolves Joe is dark and there is no room for hope, so much so that we end up becoming paranoid, in turn, dreading each new encounter: friend or foe?

Children of Paranoia is a hard but taking novel. I was glued to my book, especially in the last two hundred pages when it was impossible for me to let go. It is this oppressive atmosphere, mixed with a fatalism that is cold in the back, which made me shed a few tears, but after all, as Joseph said, those outside this war can fully understand the reasons that they have the lead.