Reader's Favorite Review--5 Stars

Reviewed By Viga Boland for Readers’ Favorite

Take some Stephen King horror, add a dose of dystopia, toss in a generous amount of science fiction, mix in some fantasy and you have an appetizing bedtime reading snack created by Cynthia titled iDENTITY. Let your imagination soar to a future world, 2040 to be exact, where transporters ferry you over city rooftops in a heartbeat, where you shoot past Mars via a galactic “worm-hole” to a beautiful Hawaii-like planet in just 48 hours, and where by simply taking a regular round of little green pills, you can change your Identity. Sounds idyllic, doesn’t it? Not!

Four young women respond to an enticing hologram that promises them “instant fame without the pain”. Who wouldn’t be intrigued, especially when your life is on a downward spiral or has already hit rock bottom? After each signs on the dotted line, and takes her first green pill, everything about her and her life changes within a few hours. Jaz is transformed into a dazzling beauty who becomes the face of space travel; Maggie’s dreams of being a top author come true in no time; Sydney is the darling of the casinos, winning huge with every pull of the lever, and Lena rockets to the top of her industry, resuming her rightful position in financial management. And as long as these four lucky women keep taking their pills, the world is their oyster. But of course, no good horror story would be complete without a mad doctor who has had to experiment on willing subjects like these women to perfect his formulae. The unfortunate early recipients of what was initially a liquid green serum are now drowning in it as their bodies mutate into hideously deformed beasts. Will this happen eventually to our four lucky ladies? You will have to read Identity to find out!

Cynthia is an imaginative and clever writer who is obviously enjoying herself as she creates this story. She moves the story forward by skillfully switching between each of the four women. Readers are never lost, despite a rather involved plot and a large cast of characters. To her further credit, while Identity is primarily a fantasy, people do come across as very real. Readers are touched by their struggles and joys, and share their hopes that their lives will forever be better than they were. Indeed, who of us hasn’t sometimes wished that we could just take a pill or win a lottery and all our troubles would be over? So, let yourself indulge in the tasty blend of genres you’ll find in Identity. You, too, deserve a break today!

5-Star Review on Amazon & Goodreads

By BobTon October 17, 2017

Format: Paperback

What a great idea! A little green pill that takes away everything loathsome in your life and replaces it with everything your dreams want you to be. All you have to do is volunteer - and that’s what the author’s four main women characters do. It works for them. They leave behind their old unhappy states and – fuelled by green-pills – achieve exactly what they want: fame, for one; beauty for another; wealth for the third; and revenge for the last. You just know it can’t be that easy. After all, they are not alone. Other people start throwing up problems, some maliciously. What should be a road to paradise become increasingly tainted and the foursome find themselves far less free than they had imagined. An evil influence is at work. Someone with a frightening agenda who wants everything their own way no matter whose life gets destroyed in the process.


The story dips into the lives of the four women as they achieve their dreams. It gives us a peep into their fears and determination – and, for one at least, it also shows selfish ruthlessness.
In the context of an unnervingly realistic future world, privacy is non-existent and system abuses inevitable. This all feeds into a heady mix that is bound to explode. When it does, some die and some disappear. That should be the end, but the author hasn’t quite finished. The evil ‘someone’ powerfully survives and they know all about the four women.


This is an imaginative book that makes intriguing reading. Thoroughly recommended

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