Psychotopia by RN Morris
A game for the times we live – and die – in. Enter Psychotopia, a dark new dystopian novel from the author of the acclaimed Silas Quinn mysteries.
PSYCHOTOPIA, LEVEL ONE. Create your own boutique psychopath, then deceive, manipulate and be ruthless, spreading mayhem and destruction to reach the next levels.
It’s the computer game for our times. After all, the amount of crazy in the world is increasing. Senseless violence on the streets is becoming the norm. Can Dr Arbus’s ground-breaking device identify and neutralize psychopaths before it’s too late? In this increasingly dysfunctional world, surely Callum standing by Aimee after her devastating encounter with Charlie is proof that real love and goodness can still win in a world that’s increasingly rotten . . . Or can it?
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About the Author
- N. Morris is the author of ten novels. The latest is PSYCHOTOPIA, published 31 October, 2018.
A Gentle Axe, was published by Faber and Faber in 2007. Set in St Petersburg in the nineteenth century, it features Porfiry Petrovich, the investigating magistrate from Dostoevsky’s great novel, Crime and Punishment. The book was published in many countries, including Russia. He followed that up with A Vengeful Longing, which was shortlisted for the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award (as the CWA Gold Dagger was briefly known). A Razor Wrapped in Silk came next, followed by The Cleansing Flames, which was nominated for the Ellis Peters Historical Novel Dagger.
The Silas Quinn series of novels, set in London in 1914, began with Summon Up The Blood, followed by The Mannequin House, The Dark Palace and The Red Hand of Fury. The next novel in the series, The White Feather Killer, will be published in April 2019.
Taking Comfort is a standalone contemporary novel, written as Roger Morris.
He also wrote the libretto to the opera When The Flame Dies, composed by Ed Hughes.
My Review
4 Stars
In this world people have come to care for their electronics and games more so then their fellow man. This is starting to make many people feel a rise in psychopathic behaviors. This story follows three story lines in this world. A police officer, a woman abused by a psychopath, and a psychopath that is developing a machine to test for psychopathic behaviors. But all wrapped up with these threads is notes on a video game that revolves around psychopathic behaviors in which worse behaviors gets you further in the game.
Just reading the blurb for this book made me very curious about where it was going. It has things that are similar to the real world behaviors of people today which makes you think where that behavior could go. Then you have the people that are struggling to deal with those with psychopathic traits. My heart goes out to Inspector Parfitt, even if he is hard to like, and Aimee who found herself broken by Charlie.
I love how you had these separate threads that don’t really fit together yet the more you read the tighter the web gets woven and you start to see the read point of the story. This is a great story to make you think about possibilities. What could happen? How could we prevent it? Is there any way to prevent it? This is definitely one book to check out.
I received a complimentary copy of this book. I voluntarily chose to read and share this book.
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