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THE DEMI-MONDE: WINTER

The Demi-Monde: Winter, January 2012
by Rod Rees

William Morrow
528 pages
ISBN: 0062070347
EAN: 9780062070340
Kindle: B004XVN1B2
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"Could you tell the difference between imaginary and reality when you are in the Demi-Monde?"

Fresh Fiction Review

THE DEMI-MONDE: WINTER
Rod Rees

Reviewed by Kathyrn Little
Posted February 14, 2012

Science Fiction | Thriller

The Demi-Monde is a mechanism used for training soldiers for combat missions. The world inside the Demi-Monde contains racism, sexism, and hatred in general. There are many notorious historical figures in the world that may harm the training soldiers. The President's daughter is trapped inside this horrific, violent world and a rescue is planned to save her before it is too late.

Ella, the heroine, enters the world in an attempt to save Norma, the President's daughter. When she first enters, she believes the world to be made-up...something that could never take place. However, the longer she remains in the World, she begins to understand just what is going on and the ease at which the barriers between the real and fictitious worlds shift and blur. The author will convince the reader that they are immersed in a World where violence is a rule, not the exception. There is constant action as soon as Ella, and the reader, enter the Demi-Monde. The reader will find themselves rooting for the heroine as she navigates a literal Hell.

Ella's character is brave and strong. She represents one of the only good characters in the Demi-Monde and the reader will find themselves attached to Ella within the first few chapters. The other characters, particularly the historical ones, are richly portrayed. The environment and action taking place are described in great detail, leaving nothing to the readers' imagination. The World is a place that is easy to sink into and forget about the real world, but there is always an undertone of suspense and mystery that will keep the reader on their toes. The real world and the "what- could-be" world within THE DEMI-MONDE:WINTER are not so different from each other. The reader and Ella must be careful to watch their step.

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SUMMARY

In the Demi-Monde, author Rod Rees has conjured up a
terrifying virtual reality, a world dominated by history’s
most ruthless and bloodthirsty psychopathsβ€”from Holocaust
architect Reinhard Heydrich to Torquemada, the Spanish
Inquisition’s pitiless torturer, to Josef Stalin’s
bloodthirsty right-hand man/monster, the infamous Beria.

The Demi-Monde: Winter kicks off a brilliant, high concept
series that blends science fiction and thriller, steampunk
and dystopian vision. If Neil Gaiman, Neal Stephenson, James
Rollins, and Clive Cussler participated in Suzanne Collins’s
The Hunger Games, the result might be something akin to the
dark and ingenious madness of Rees’s The Demi-Monde: Winter.

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