Aquifer
Jonathan Friesen
In a futuristic world, where water is scarce, a small town must rely on one man to travel into the depths of the Earth to meet with the allegedly ratlike creatures that dwell below in order to receive water from their source. When the "Deliverer" mysteriously disappears and the life of his son, the new Deliverer is at stake, Luca must escape the clutches of the corrupt "Nine" to find out the truth in the Earth below.
When Luca finds out the dwellers underground are not at all like rats, but gorgeous humans with incredible power and science, he realizes he must do anything to spread the truth about the Nine, his father, and the water.
This book took a little getting into...a lot of the themes and futuristic ideas were a little hard to grasp. Friesen did a great job of only revealing bits and pieces to form clues to the big puzzle, but at the same time, I struggled to wrap my mind around both things. However, I love a good Dystopian novel, and Friesen has written a book that has elements that have not been used before. Sure, there is a fundamental equation for creating a Dystopian world and story, but Friesen gets incredibly creative and goes outside the box to form a likely world in our, perhaps, not so distant future?
Luca is a young man struggling with independence and the introduction of a new young lady, who is beautiful...Luca comes from a world where people must suppress every emotion, so when the floodgates open to this mysterious underground stranger, you have an interesting and intriguing little love story.
I am unaware of a sequel to this book, but the book ends well enough satisfying the reader that the problem has been solved and the story has come to a nice conclusion.
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