There’s a part of me that wants to write this entire review through uncomfortable analogy. So I will start there: imagine Top Gun within the world of Enemy at the Gates. Or The Calculating Stars reimagined with A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Sound fun? So this is a first novel by a writer who also works in film and television and acts as a secret history (written in a godlike third person narrative perspective that hyper focuses on our lead character but also will […]
They protested their innocence of course, but the warden still led them away.
Ascent by Jed Mercurio
