{"id":82083,"date":"2018-08-02T18:56:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T07:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=82083"},"modified":"2018-08-03T17:23:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T06:23:56","slug":"jasper-fforde-early-riser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2018\/08\/02\/jasper-fforde-early-riser\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Early Riser by Jasper Fforde"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"jasper<\/a>Early Riser <\/strong>
\nby Jasper Fforde<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review by Tracey Mills<\/strong><\/p>\n

Imagine a world not dissimilar to our own but where almost the entire population hibernates throughout the winter. Sounds pretty appealing, right?<\/p>\n

Now imagine there was a chance that you would die in your sleep. Or become a Nightwalker (AKA zombie) and be reprogrammed to perform menial tasks, or have your body chopped up and used for spare parts. Surviving the winter is no easy feat. What if you had to resort to cannibalism to survive?<\/p>\n

This is the world that Jasper Fforde introduces us to in his new standalone novel Early Riser<\/em>, an adventure unlike any other. The main character, Charlie Worthing, is an orphan living and working in the pool (orphanage) where he grew up. Tired of the same boring routine, on a whim Charlie joins the Winter Consuls – a sort of police force that protects the populace during the winter.<\/p>\n

Thrown into a whole new world Charlie manages to get himself trapped in Sector 12 where mysterious things keep happening. Here, he is forced to deal with all kinds of issues such as the zombie-like Nightwalkers, Wintervolk who make people disappear but leave their clothing intact, folded in a neat pile, and viral dreams that are killing people.<\/p>\n

Not knowing who is friend or foe, Charlie must find a way to understand the meaning behind the weird hyper real dreams that he is not supposed be having and somehow survive until Spring to expose a secret that people will kill to keep.<\/p>\n

Early Riser<\/em><\/a> is full of the quirky humour and sense of adventure that has made Jasper Fforde so popular. The book is a wild ride that will keep you guessing until the very end.<\/p>\n

If you are a fan of PC Peter Grant from the Ben Aaronovich novels you will love Charlie Worthing and this audacious supernatural adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early Riser by Jasper Fforde Review by Tracey Mills Imagine a world not dissimilar to our own but where almost the entire population hibernates throughout the winter. Sounds pretty appealing, right? Now imagine there was a chance that you would die in your sleep. Or become a Nightwalker (AKA zombie) and be reprogrammed to perform menial tasks, or have your body chopped up and used for spare parts. Surviving the winter is no easy feat. What if you had to resort to cannibalism to survive? This is the world that Jasper Fforde introduces us to in his new standalone novel Early Riser, an adventure unlike any other. The main character, Charlie Worthing, is an orphan living and working in the pool (orphanage) where he grew up. Tired of the same boring routine, on a whim Charlie joins the Winter Consuls – a sort of police force that protects the populace during the winter. Thrown into a whole new world Charlie manages to get himself trapped in Sector 12 where mysterious things keep happening. Here, he is forced to deal with all kinds of issues such as the zombie-like Nightwalkers, Wintervolk who make people disappear but leave their clothing intact, folded…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[6678],"tags":[9070,9069,6799,2747,4963],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/fforde-social.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82083"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82119,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82083\/revisions\/82119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}