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Max Kidruk is an amateur writer. He has satirical works, techno-thrillers, and adventure stories. Everyone can find something of their own. The novel Where There Is No God is a book with a slow plot, the action of which is revealed to the reader gradually, slowly, without undue haste. The plane crash brought together very different people who were lucky enough to survive the crash. High up in the mountains, where there is no hope of rescue, the author forces his characters to show their true nature. What kind of place is it without the prospect of escape?

Max Kidruk, as always, writes his characters very carefully, pays a lot of attention to details. In this book, the author fully enjoyed his favorite sport, American football, and for me there was too much of it in the book. Knowing the author’s other works, I want to say that there are more interesting books. The DNB is a bit boring and difficult to read, but as always, it is well thought out, structured and detailed. I do not recommend starting your acquaintance with the author’s work with this book. It may discourage you from reading his other works.

This is my first book by this author and I was pleasantly surprised. At first, the story may seem boring, there are stories about the lives of future main characters and nothing unremarkable, and then the most interesting part begins. And so I read the book in one evening because I couldn’t put it down for a single second. I like the author’s writing style (as I love King and they are somewhat similar), but the moment when there were descriptions of football, it was difficult to read, it was hard for me to imagine the game and monotonous descriptions for several pages begin to bore me, but it did not spoil the book. The book keeps you intrigued all the time. You keep wanting to know what happened to the characters afterwards and especially want to know their past. I especially remember the story of the boy where he told about how his father survived in the mountains. It was very unpleasant, but so realistic that we can say we were given free lessons in survival in extreme conditions and there were a lot of such tips. It is also worth noting that all the stories of people from their past were very true (not something very unexpected, but not banal either), which made us find sympathy and understanding for them. Of course, the book didn’t end as happily as I would have liked, but it’s a great book. I recommend everyone to read it.

It seems that I have shared my impressions of this book with all my friends and colleagues at work, and it is a shame that I have no emotions other than indignation. Usually, I share only positive impressions: I either recommend reading a work or draw attention to something else.

This is my first acquaintance with the works of the young contemporary Ukrainian author Max Kidruk, and I am very sorry that it did not work out.

At first, I intended to write an objective review, but then I decided that I would write an honest one. Mr. Kidruk has gathered the most topical topics under one plot roof, the relevance of which does not disappear over time. These are the events in eastern Ukraine, as well as eternal themes: A mother’s worries about her son’s fate and her desire to help him, a father-son relationship (the father defends the borders of his native land, while the son boasts of the earnings he makes in the aggressor country), a politician who hates his work because it is meaningless, an American football player who is owed everything because he was born into a wealthy family and, most importantly, because he is “white” and therefore much superior to his “darker” opponent, a pilot who is tired of retirement and has decided to return to the profession. Almost the entire text of Where There Is No God can be reduced to a collection of short stories, where each character would get one of them by right. There are a lot of “heroes,” but there is no one to whom you can attach yourself. There are many events, but they are not dynamic. There are good ideas, but they are presented in dry facts. Sometimes I got the impression that the author didn’t understand what he was writing about, because no airport would send a damaged airliner on a flight, and a pilot without retraining wouldn’t take the helm.

For the first time, I did not understand the meaning of my reading. I guess I was influenced by others, as well as by the feedback on social media. By the way, some people call Kidruk the Ukrainian Dan Brown. As for me, it’s a bit of a mouthful, to put it mildly. I won’t go into details, but I will only say that you want to travel with Dan Brown’s characters, you want to watch them and uncover the secrets of existence and symbols with them. The American author is a master of plot and detail. Max Kidruk, successfully observing reality, transforms what he sees into creative chimeras that do not warm but disappoint and, worst of all, fill, or rather overwhelm, the world around him with cruelty, cynicism, emptiness of feelings and falsity. The work is weak in the absence of any morality, and also in its lack of significance. This was the first work by this author that I got my hands on. Most likely, I will not read the rest.

Books are a kind of relaxation, and they MUST be different and evoke a variety of emotions and impressions, bring pleasure or at least arouse respect for the author for his titanic creative work. After reading Where There Is No God, I experienced neither of these things.

However, the book and its author (it is, after all, literature, in my opinion, with a small letter) can be forgiven for everything.

P.S. I could have been indignant for a long time at the absurdity of some of the moments engraved on the pages of Where There Is No God, which should have moved me, but instead I was only indignant. It is clear that this is my subjective t

A book with an interesting cover and no less interesting content. The story is about what money does to us (that we can commit crimes to enrich ourselves. To save our money, we can sacrifice both our lives and the lives of the people around us). That sometimes people lose their common sense for the sake of easy enrichment, and in most cases it costs them very much, sometimes even their lives (and when you are on the verge of life and death, you have to make the right choice). That you should not be gullible and transport unfamiliar cargo to other countries (especially if you are not familiar with their laws) if you are not sure about the legality of this cargo. The background story in the book is quite real, and many of our compatriots are now serving prison sentences in different parts of the world for illegal drug trafficking. In general, the book does not reach the level of “Stronghold”, but it is still interesting, and as always there are many technical characteristics about the aircraft and how they fly. I recommend this book to those who love modern Ukrainian literature, the cool author Max Kidruk, and are interested in flying, mountains, and ways to survive in them)

I didn’t start reading the book right away, but in several approaches. This is not because I didn’t like it, no. You can’t help but like Kidrouk. The reason is quite different.

One of my biggest fears is aerophobia. And from the cover you can see that the story is about a plane crash.

And so it is in fact. But the book is not just about that.

It’s about a person’s place in society, about his or her attitude towards other people, about the perception of the world, about the attitude towards God and religion.

When completely different people, with radically different life values and attitudes, suddenly find themselves in the same place and are threatened by danger, they are capable of unpredictable actions.

Are people able to think soberly in stressful situations, are they able to control their emotions?

Is it possible to remain human in such a situation, or will the instinct for self-preservation prevail?

The author touches upon many crucial topics of our time: the war with Russia, family relationships, humanity and religion.

In any book, I don’t like too many nuances and details.

But in this case, the details only fascinate me.

It is amazing how much material the author had to study from various fields to cover the topics of sports, religion, and technology so perfectly.

The interesting plot and the quality of the text deserve the highest marks!

I recommend the book for reading!