ISBN 9781938475030
Release July 2nd
Ebook TBC

In 25 Perfect Days Mark Tullius chronicles a slow degeneration into the ultimate fascist state through twenty-five interlinked short stories set over a forty-year period.
Throughout the twenty-five short stories the authors focus is on individual lives and events, never showing the whole picture, the book becomes a jigsaw for the reader to complete one story at a time. Consequently I found myself devouring the pages hastily looking for the next piece of the puzzle, and I certainly enjoyed the journey.

Have you ever thought that the government should do more to tackle obesity, or to reduce the number of drivers clogging up the roads, perhaps you want more done to stop the population increasing as fast as it is.  Imagine the government did do more, imagine they did an awful lot more.

Recently dystopia has been popularized in young adult fiction and dystopian societies are often portrayed in Sci-Fi and other speculative fiction.  I’m well aware that a dystopian society is the opposite of a Utopian society, but if there are degrees of dystopia then, Mark’s creation is at the most extreme end of the scale, resulting in an interesting unique blend of Sci-Fi & Horror with Dystopia as the binding agent.

Through out the book, “The Way” initially  a small  radical religious group, gradually becomes the only source of power in the corrupt state, reminding me of the quote:
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” – Lord Acton
The Way presents a frighteningly believable conduit for the descent of the initially moral and fair society of  american dreams, into that depicted in 25 Perfect Days.

The book opens with a line from a popular Slipknot song, and it is certainly an inspired choice. In 25 Perfect Days all hope is truly gone.