Book Review - The Tech by Mark Ravine

The Tech by Mark Ravine manages to get into the reader's head and keep them clinging to the story that, in addition to the mystery, touches many realities of modern world. The narrative rhythm proceeds in crescendo, developing an exhaustive plot, where the writer took the time necessary to create a compelling literary construction, with developments at all obvious and full of action and pathos.

Alexandra Cassidy, a promising FBI special agent, will go into an investigation that will put her life, her conception of sanity at stake and that will lead her to incidental events. It is a world unknown to her and the only thing that does not make her waver is the determination to make room in that hard, all-male professional world.

But the meeting with Michael Patterson, aka Mike, the IT support shakes all her certainties. What is Mike hiding? Can Alexandra give up control and trust this man? Who is the man in the ruthless mask? What will happen when the cards are turned over?

The two study each other, turn around, touch each other, become passionate, but the web of secrets and lies seems to be tightening on them more and more. In spite of everything, Alexandra is taken, discovers of herself and complicated new things, important details that, perhaps, will eventually serve to shed light of her life.

We read the story of Mike and Alexandra, two different characters but who will discover they are much more similar people than they thought. Mike has a goal and she is his pawn but slowly it starts to be something more. A game that mixes with duty, fiction that blends with reality and borders become almost invisible.

Through their bodies they find themselves sharing much more than they had planned and, page after page, we see them giving themselves more and more piece by piece. In their relationship nothing is as expected, for Alexandra everything is new but at the same time when she is with him she feels herself.

Love, hate, fate, strange practices, intrigue and fast-paced action flood the pages of a novel where sometimes fate tests her so that she knows she exists. The pressing rhythm of the narrative, which does not spare twists, made me reach the bottom without almost being able to stop reading.

The relationship between Mike and Alexandra evolves and heals the wounds of both when they accept the truths that concern them. Some moments really have a charge of engaging sensuality and, in some way, for them, cathartic. At the end, equally engaging, the love story is particular, certainly not conventional, but very intense and profound, with an underlying tenderness that enchants.

Dive into an intricate investigation that will delight lovers of the genre. Mark Ravine dazzles us with his first foray into the detective genre with a fascinating novel, full of suspense and mystery. With an agile style, Mark Ravine builds a thriller that explores the limits of the human being and breaks the schemas of the suspense genre.

I love that Ravine doesn't change the main character throughout the book. Most authors decide they want to change character and be something more different, but Ravine made the character strong and resilient from the start. The suspense and action part, was able to balance things and make reading a little more engaging, also focusing on the psychology of the protagonists.

Ravine gives us an addictive novel that grabs you from the first page and keeps you tied to it until its haunting ending. In a wonderful way, Ravine manages to perfectly spin the descriptions, dialogues and characters so that as readers we stay hooked to an atmosphere of much intrigue and action, posing as feelings of suffering, love, fear and pain in equal parts.

A novel that is easy to read, absorbing and difficult to put to rest, because every time you are forced to stop reading, you want to return to it (at least that's what has happened to me). I am a lover of this type of books because I love the detective part, the action and the adrenaline in the scenes.

With a fluid and fluent writing, correct, but with great impact and descriptive ability capable of conveying emotions vividly, Ravine sets his narrative with a cyclical trend. This scaffolding allows the reader to come into contact with the various figures that are linked in the book by the red thread.

Different in profession and personal history, the characters are endowed with depth, feelings and motivations that give depth allowing us to understand them and find with one, several, who knows maybe with everyone, contact points that lead to empathy.

By alternating actions, the story clearly takes shape and is told, in a rhythm that imprisons by capturing personal stories; crime; and pains that strike like a punch in the stomach, turn into a dark fascination. For a long time, I had not read a book that fully fell within the dynamics of domination and submission and I must say that I had missed it very much.

Reading some scenes in these books and going back with your mind and rethinking scenes that impressed me in other books made my skin tingle. This kind of books has always attracted me like a moth: discovering this world where you are not sinners but simple living beings with particular inclinations.

Without being a masterpiece, it is a good novel, entertaining and well written, which has not disappointed me. I have read it in an electronic version, and it must be said that the edition is correct, without flaws and with a good index. It is a book that has suspense and intrigue and is also unpredictable in events which makes the book entertaining. It is a book that attracts, engages and reads quickly.

The compelling plot acquires greater human and emotional impact, thanks to the characters, which the writer introduces in the best way, that is, slowly, without haste, with the seraphic calm of a turn of the page, making us immerse in the events that they follow each other almost sacredly, with respect for the topics covered.

In this novel the description of the feelings and sensations that move the various actors, their intense motivations, are developed concretely, making their every step comprehensible to the reader, making them credible figures, without ostentation.

The narrative has compelling implications that come surprisingly. This is confirmed by the fact that, before reaching the end of the book, when it is expected to move towards the supposed conclusions, the plot undergoes a clear change of course, inserting an unexpected twist.

Tenacity on one side, brazen evil on the other. Nobody will emerge unscathed from this adventure, not even the truth. The ending will make your heart beat and clench your fists and who knows, maybe Ravine will give us a following capable of arousing new emotions. An epic ending leaves a crack open, like a door ajar on what could become another exciting story.