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Once Awakened
by Kfir Luzzatto
Published by Pine Ten on July 18, 2019
Genres: Science Fiction
Pages: 275
Format: Kindle
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A suspenseful SciFi mystery from the author of "Chipless" and "The Evelyn Project".
What would you do if you woke up one morning and found that the people you trusted are not who you thought they were? But then, reality can be what you make yourself believe it is, even when things that others do and say don't add up.
That's what happened to Richard in his professional life; and now his family has changed too, subtly but undeniably. He needs to discover what on Earth is causing an impossible chain of events, but when he puts the pieces of the puzzle together, they form a picture that makes no sense.
Unless those pieces are not from Earth.
Once Awakened by Kfir Luzzatto had an interesting way of narrating the story that it made me forget that it was a story about aliens.
Can aliens be real?
Richard Luster
Richard Luster is our main character and our only point of view character. We follow him as he is being interviewed and telling someone what he has gone through for the past few months. Richard is a gripping character that makes the reader hang onto his every word. He has gone through a lot in this novel and doesn’t know what to do with most of the knowledge that he acquired because not a whole lot of people believe him anymore.
The Mystery
The mystery is whether or not he can unsurface the truth about what he first thought was one person but is now three. He doesn’t know what to think about any of this new information as he keeps gathering intail throughout. Each person he recruits bails on him until he has no one left but himself. That is the hardest part for Mr. Luster, especially as a patent lawyer, to not have any help trying to oust these three people.
Four Stars
Once Awakened by Kfir Luzzatto is written so beautifully that I was following the clues with the main character and saying things out loud to make sense of them. It was an extravagant piece of writing. Mr. Luzzatto is a superb author, and I can’t wait to read another book of his. I am giving this book a four-star rating and recommending it to any SCI-FI readers or even just fans of the author’s work.
Thank you for dropping by! I hope you enjoyed this review of Once Awakened by Kfir Luzzatto.
Until the next time,
Happy Reading!
About Kfir Luzzatto
I was born and raised in Italy, and moved to Israel as a teenager. I acquired the love for the English language from my father, a former U.S. soldier and WWII veteran, a voracious reader and a prolific writer. With a PhD in chemical engineering and a long family history that I need to live up to, I work as a patent attorney and head the patent law firm that was established by my great-grandfather in Milan, Italy, in 1869. I live in Omer, Israel, with my full-time partner, Esther, our four children, Michal, Lilach, Tamar and Yonatan, and the dog Elvis. Writing has always been my passion and for almost four years I wrote a weekly “Patents” column in Globes (Israel’s financial newspaper), which also yielded my non-fiction book, THE WORLD OF PATENTS, (a not-so-boring tale of what patents are about, in Hebrew), which was published in 2002 by Globes Press. Since then, although I vowed not to spend time on non-fiction books, I released a new, more international and more comprehensive book, FUN WITH PATENTS, published in February of 2016. I love writing short stories but I have too many novels waiting to be written (and possibly not enough years ahead of me to write them all), so now I mostly write full-length fiction. My other passion is working with other authors on stories I love and that’s how I wound up serving on the editorial board of The Harrow Press as Anthology Editor until the end of 2014, when The Harrow Press folded its tent. You can read about my books through my Amazon link, Goodreads link, or at my website. I love them all, but I never had greater fun than when working on “HAVE BOOK WILL TRAVEL”, a YA fantasy that I wrote together with my son, Yonatan.
Reading this book contributed to these challenges:
- 2019 Goodreads Reading Challenge
- 2019 New Release Challenge
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