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Reviewed by Christian Sia for Readers' Favorite
Ronnie Sacco’s The Resonance Crossing is set in the authoritarian surveillance state of Dominia, and it follows a low-tier reclamation worker named Luca Ashbourne. In a world where people are forbidden to feel and where emotion is medicated, scored, and suppressed by the National Dominia Council, Luca begins to sense things he shouldn’t. A hum beneath the silence of the city, a stranger’s scream inside his skull, and something that draws him to a forbidden district. These are dangerous symptoms, and his life becomes even more complicated when he discovers a mysterious book with ink that literally bleeds and reshapes itself for him. The book is for those who feel too much, remember too clearly, or sense something beneath the silence. Luca drifts toward the world of the “Wakers,” the people awakening to the very resonance the regime has spent years trying to suppress. What follows is an extraordinary journey fraught with danger: shady alliances, checkpoints, and midnight raids. The destination: Equaterra, a place that might be a trap, a myth, or a sanctuary.
Ronnie Sacco's story is about remembering who you are in a world designed to make you forget. This theme runs throughout the book, and it is very resonant. The author cleverly shows what happens when we are brainwashed, controlled, and forced to live in a way someone else requires us to. The worldbuilding in The Resonance Crossing is extraordinary, and Dominia is chillingly plausible, with its surveillance, biometric checkpoints, and emotional scoring of Nexyn. The writing is exquisite, and the words like bandwidth, glyphs, and drift are given unique connotations; however, the foreword’s plea to feel rather than decode pays off with the superior storytelling. The short chapters, one-line paragraphs, and engaging dialogue make the book a breezy read. This book can be read as a metaphysical fable or a dystopian thriller. The author creates a genuinely flawed hero and a supporting cast that keep you wondering who can and cannot be trusted. The major tension is between the silence and the signal. You will race through the pages and then want more.
