The world has taken a different path in recent years, becoming more fair and just. Or at least that's what Elena Fairchild believed, especially at the dawn of a new adventure. After a few years, faced with the consequences of that project now implemented, a thousand doubts grip her. Soon, they become much more than uncertainties, appearing in a harsh reality that recalls what school books had represented to her as evil incarnate.

The book begins with a contextualization carried forward in the first chapters, then goes to the heart of the matter and lead into a claustrophobic spiral made of thriller scenes. It's never too harsh in terms of physical violence, but it's violent from a psychological view. The protagonist faces a road that leads her to reveal a reality that was already in front of her eyes. Yet she had never considered it as obscene as it will once the protagonist realizes the dramatic destiny which she has helped to build too.

Christina Dalcher's writing is quite simple, the style doesn't disappoint. The pace is not as fast as action novels or the American thrillers I read, but it's still higher than a classic general narrative book. In some moments, it's perhaps a little too "spread out", but it isn't a book that I disliked. I recommend it to those who want a book where the narration meets an imaginary alternative world addressing ethical and moral dilemmas of the past that are current because of the naive blindness that unites human beings.