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Proud Parents Blog
2354 AD. 300 AD according to the new calendar. Three hundred years ago, humanity reached its next evolutionary step, suddenly and irreversibly.
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It was a change it wasn't ready for.
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Everything changed. Governments. The way to wage war. How parents relate to their children. The human race itself was changed and contorted, physically and mentally, with no way of going back and little idea of how to go on.
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Three hundred years after the Day Humanity Evolved, a small group of people come together drawn in by a blog and its peculiar contents, unsuspecting of the incident they would be involved in, and the lengths one of them would go to not let its memory fall into oblivion, defiant of danger.
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The times are starting to change again. And Henry and the others are going to find themselves the vanguard.
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It was a change it wasn't ready for.
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Everything changed. Governments. The way to wage war. How parents relate to their children. The human race itself was changed and contorted, physically and mentally, with no way of going back and little idea of how to go on.
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Three hundred years after the Day Humanity Evolved, a small group of people come together drawn in by a blog and its peculiar contents, unsuspecting of the incident they would be involved in, and the lengths one of them would go to not let its memory fall into oblivion, defiant of danger.
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The times are starting to change again. And Henry and the others are going to find themselves the vanguard.
79 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 14, 2012
About the author
Meinos Kaen
3Ìýbooks1ÌýfollowerMeinos Kaen, real name Simone Simeone (1988), is an Italian author and journalist. He's the author of one Italian only novel -La Guerra delle Reliquie - La rocca cremisi- and Proud Parents Blog which is his first english publication. He also writes for the italian criminology webzine Altri Confini and on his personal blog Storie in Rosso. His next book, S-Class, has a publication date set for March 2013.
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January 21, 2013
The Proud Parents Blog is an enjoyable read with an interesting premise - a blog written by parents 300 years in the future. This is a concept that could end up being contrived it but it works well in this book. I did have to suspend my disbelief that people will still be writing blogs that far in the future. In between blog entries, we get comments from a range of characters as well as the narrators thoughts on the entry.
I was really torn between giving Proud Parents Blog 3 or 4 stars but the one thing that held me back was there isn't a lot of character development in the novel. The narrator simply gives the background to the posts but doesn't seem to grow in anyway, though is quite amusing.
The format also means there is not a lot of action going on and can feel more like world building than story at times. Even so, it's far from a slow and ponderous read.
Proud Parents Blog (I keep feeling like there should be an apostrophe in there somewhere), contains an excerpt to Meinos Kaen's coming novel which is set in the same world and, even from this short chapter, looks full of promise. I will be interested to see where he goes with this coming novel.
I was really torn between giving Proud Parents Blog 3 or 4 stars but the one thing that held me back was there isn't a lot of character development in the novel. The narrator simply gives the background to the posts but doesn't seem to grow in anyway, though is quite amusing.
The format also means there is not a lot of action going on and can feel more like world building than story at times. Even so, it's far from a slow and ponderous read.
Proud Parents Blog (I keep feeling like there should be an apostrophe in there somewhere), contains an excerpt to Meinos Kaen's coming novel which is set in the same world and, even from this short chapter, looks full of promise. I will be interested to see where he goes with this coming novel.
February 2, 2013
A quirky and intelligent dystopian vision of the future, this book was really a great read. Proud Parents Blog is sort of a mix between George Orwell's 1984 and X-men, set in a authoritarian state during a time in which a small segment of humanity has evolved (naturally or by design?) special powers that the state is seeking to contain. I highly recommend this read to both fans of science fiction and to fans of dystopian novels. My only complaint is that it could use one or two more lookovers for editing--the errors are minor but somewhat widespread at times.
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Dr. Leonardo Noto
January 1, 2013
All in all a very interesting concept. I would have liked more background more story to help connect with the blog. It took me a bit to figure out what was going on. It felt like a graphic novel to me. I am not a fan, I just don't enjoy reading that way. But the evolution of humans was thought provoking; if my 12 year old exhibited signs....well....as a parent how would you deal with that!!
January 16, 2013
I ended up liking this though at the beginning I was having a hard time getting into it. The story starts at the end, in a way, and details are given as you go along. The concept is interesting and this format is unique. I think I would have enjoyed this more if it were a graphic novel as I think that can add another level to a story and it may have helped me get into quicker.
March 29, 2013
I found this book very witty and crafty. The way the author conveyed the blogging in the future at first it confused me a bit with the "skills" and the "Border Wars" and stuff, since it wasn't mentioned that the blogging takes part in the future, and I didn't read the blurb to find out what to expect. But soon it dawned on me that the book is kind of dystopian. In a way it's a prequel or prelude to the new novel that is to be released soon. The scary part about the people with these special or supernatural skills is the S-type, they're so disturbed that once rated they must be removed from their homes in order to be brought up in a very controlled environment. The only thing that I hoped to be explained in the book was how did humans come to possess these skills or maybe when and how did the first case discovered and how did the humanity react to these new super-humans. Their skills are something from super strength to speed, telepathy, inflicting thoughts to photographic memory, and/or any combination of these. And there're also "faulties" or those with not special skills, or rather normal. Though the parents blogging about their children's abilities is a far cry from "bragging". They may be proud to a certain point,but they're also scared for themselves and their children. But the way it's presented (as actual snippets from a blog before it's permanently closed by let's say government or some type of authorities)maybe the author omitted this part. It by no means make the reading less enjoyable, just I thought it would explain thing a bit better. In fact I liked this book so much I'm featuring it on my new blog "Child Care Pains"
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