Wilson deftly weaves a story that combines the seen and unseen, religion and philosophy, and a struggle for life and death - not just for the characters involved, but for the world itself. When Alif is jilted by his aristocratic lover for a prince that can provide her the lifestyle to which she is accustomed, a chain of events is set in motion that has widespread implications for the future of this country and the revolutionaries fed up with the status quo. Out of high school, but barely, Alif is a hacker genius who, from the apartment he shares with his mother, runs a cloud where all types of dissidents are able to digitally converse, and stay hidden from The Hand, the head of the State’s electronic security force. I wish I hadn’t waited so long (thank you, public library, for making reading on a whim so easy!) to read what turned out to be a quite engaging, modern urban fantasy.Īt the beginning of the story, set in an unnamed Middle Eastern military state, we meet the protagonist, Alif,who takes his online handle from the first letter of the alphabet. Alif the Unseen has been on my Amazon wishlist for a while each time I thought about ordering it, something else seemed more compelling.
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