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The Patriot’s Grill
Steven Day, author

Adult; General Fiction (including literary and historical); (Market)

It is 2099 and America has been controlled by a brutal dictatorship for 70 years. Democracy isn’t just dead; it’s been erased from history. For Joe Carlton, bartender at The Patriot’s Grill, self-government is unimaginable. But then an old man, with an unbelievable story, wanders into the Grill and everything changes — for Joe and for the nation.
Plot/Idea: 8 out of 10
Originality: 9 out of 10
Prose: 9 out of 10
Character/Execution: 9 out of 10
Overall: 8.75 out of 10

Assessment:

Plot: Day’s novel boasts perfectly executed time-skips, plotting, and a narrative that is both haunting and unrelentingly optimistic.

Prose/Style: The prose here is meticulously crafted, switching between lovely and haunting with ease. Dialogue and speeches breathe life to bartender Joe Carlton’s strength and complexity.

Originality: The Patriot’s Grill is a suspenseful, engrossing tale that features all the traditional hallmarks of the dystopian genre while remaining unequivocally optimistic about human nature and the power of change, setting the novel apart.

Character Development/Execution: The characters in Day’s The Patriot’s Grill are complex and convincing. Readers will find Joe Carlton’s simultaneous stalwart conviction and fear-fueled anxiety both relatable and realistic. Secondary characters are essential to the narrative and breathe life into a bleak futuristic world.

Blurb: A suspenseful dystopian novel that at once gives readers a frightening look at a futuristic America ravaged by climate change, constant surveillance, and dictatorship while nevertheless remaining unrelentingly optimistic, shining a beacon of hope amid an all-too-possible future.

Date Submitted: June 21, 2021

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