Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novel Winner – 2018Our world was perfect––until we broke the law: Don’t go out at night.Utopian by day, dystopian by night; this is the world I recently discovered. I now struggle with the fact that our whole society has been based on a lie. There’s only one way to change it––conquer the darkness we’ve all been raised to fear.Live the lie; fight to the death; become a Handler. … the death; become a Handler. It’s the only way.
A sci-fi/dystopian novel.
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Handler A MUST READ! Handler is a futuristic dystopian that is utterly engaging. You’ll be hooked until the end and when you find out the “WHO” and the “WHAT”, you’ll be shocked! 12.19.17 Only a few more days until you too can find out about their one law…DO NOT GO OUT AT NIGHT! You really should heed the warning!
This is a Young Adult dystopian story. I very much liked the main character. The story dragged a bit, in the middle, and had quite an abrupt ending, but it was worth reading.
WOW! I don’t know what I expected, but it definitely wasn’t this. Handler by Tish Thawer is a total mind F%$k! Talk about falling down the rabbit hole, Cole’s life as he knows is GONE. How can i describe it? This story is the Hunger Games, MMA, and the Matrix all rolled into one with a bizarre, unique twist. <---- See, mind f%$k. This is NOT your run of mill dystopian novel. Thawer has crafted a original, thrilling tale that left this reader slack jawed and wanting more.
Handler is an action-packed Sci-Fi/Dystopian stand-alone that will leave you wanting more. The twists and turns Ms. Thawer navigated into the story create a suspenseful ‘I never saw that coming’ ending that shocks!
LOVED. IT. Yes, straight to the point, but sums it up entirely. This book was never at any point what I was expecting, and it was such a fantastic surprise – or a lot of surprises, in this case! When I first started the book, I was worried it was going to be your typical Utopian society that some kids decided was a little too perfect, go off to investigate, and find a bunch of secrets the ‘adults’ are hiding and decide to expose it. Nope. I was SO wrong!
To say this book is dystopian, or even sci-fi…it’s hard to put such small labels on it. There truly is a bit of everything in it, and is what I enjoyed about it so much. You see the entire book through one character’s eyes, so every event that unfolds that could potentially be answered through another character’s eyes? Nope. You don’t find out until the main character finds out what’s going on. It really feels like you are right there with him the entire time…confused, angry, scared, happy…all of it right along with him. It was the perfect point of view for this book because it added to the creepy and the billions of questions that keep building up, and flying at you.
I devoured this book. There was so much detail – and not overdone, boring detail, but movie-in-your-head detail – that I knew only a quarter of the way through that this would definitely turn into more than one book. I wasn’t even mad. In fact, I was happy because I knew that this entire world and what we find out about it is going to be giant, and I JUST. CAN’T. WAIT!
This is definitely a more difficult review to write, because I don’t want to give away any more than what the description of the book already tells you. The journey of questions and answers that just create more questions was the best part of the ride in this book. All I can say is read it. You MUST read it! If you like dystopian and sc-fi with a whole lot of mystery, you will love this book as much as I did. I would definitely say it’s re-readable as well, because there is so much you learn that will give you a completely different perspective the 2nd time around. I can’t wait to see what book 2 has in store for us!