Paradigm by Ceri A. Lowe
Paradigm by Ceri A. Lowe My rating: 4 of 5 stars Doom and gloom rages, rattles and roars on the horizon! At least in the young adult market this appears to be the case. This whole booming genre breathes dust, desolation, destruction, disease and death; but it also seems to radiate youthful anticipation, aspiration, and rejuvenation. Ceri A. Lowe has burrowed her way into the whole scene with her new 376 page paperback, “Paradigm,” the first installment of a planned trilogy. Lowe tells a double story that follows the paths of two major teenage characters separated by 87 years. “Paradigm” takes off in the middle of Carter Walker’s story as he enters into a kind of suspended animation – a form of population control imposed by the Industry for the good of the Community. When he is recalled from the Catacombs fifteen years later, things begin to really take off. Everything rehearsed in the beginning of his story slowly gets peeled back, chapter by chapter, until it becomes clear that ...