Amy's Square
by Dominic Schunker
The world continues to let children die every day from thirst and starvation, poisoned water and disease, and the world continues to let the Earth die.
A man, destroyed by the desertion of his wife, comes out the other side and finds a mission. It’s bold. It’s crazy. He’s not totally sure what’s at the end of it but he has to follow it. It’s a terrifying leap away from his world but it ends up being a mission to rescue the very substance of life.
From the ancient Aztecs to the Moroccan desert, Spanish highways to the remote fields of Russia, clues appear, people die and someone gets ever closer to him.
The children, the generation who must eventually find the answer, silently guide him to the truth.
And it’s a truth that will change everything.
Momma Says: 4 stars⭐⭐⭐
Amy's Square is atmospheric, and Dominic Schunker has a wonderful attention to detail. That said, the beginning of the story is taken up by character and world-building, and it moves at a much slower pace than I care for. Once that's taken care of, the story does take off, and that's where the thriller kicks in. The author draws us in with well-described locations and an air of mystery. There are even a couple of twists I didn't see coming, and that doesn't happen often. The only real drawback for me was all the world-building in the beginning. I prefer it to take place more organically throughout the story, but I realized as the story unfolds that much of it was necessary. In the end, Amy's Square is very well written and thoroughly entertaining.
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