Review by Charlie Ferguson

Straight away we are swept up into the world and ways of our main character Gustavo, its done in such a way that we can identify with him. I connected with him instantly, in no specific way for a while but somehow I just felt like Gustavo was my neighbour a man who I knew a lot about and felt emotions towards. This so called average man in fact is nowhere near average after all, he hates his in laws and has fallen out of love with his wife and he treats his job like its more of a nuisance than something paying the bills. But as you read in the Synopsis, the world goes to hell and back, an object parks on the moon and no one knows where it came from, when Gustavo makes  list in preparation for the hypothetical attack he nearly blows the bank and becomes obsessed with the list. He's thought to be crazy but he's not so crazy in the end when the attack happens and everyone is left looking to Gustavo for leadership in a time only he and his 2 friends were prepared for.

I loved Gustavo as a character, he seemed to have all the thought processes I would have in any situation he was in, well or so I believe. I pretty much can only speak of him because that's where my focus is but in relation to his wife, she got on my nerves and I was quite happy with her storyline. Gustavo's friends were great, his closest 2 who were prepared with him were great just for the fact they stood with him on this, they never thought he was crazy or anything, they were on the same wavelength and that alone is hard to find. Gustavo was greatly portrayed, I knew enough about him to feel emotions towards him and support him,  I felt like we were too on the same wavelengths half of the time at least. I'm definitely one person to believe that one day some sort of extinction event will occur in whichever form it may be and that I want to be prepared for it just like Gustavo did but maybe not to so many certain extents ey?

See the rest of the Review

Tomorrow, 21 of March (Tuesday) It's Free on Amazon and Smashwords

Only, tomorrow,  21 of March (Tuesday) you can do the download of the book for free directly from amazon 

The Good Dictator I – The Rise of an Empire
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N0FTZ4O

or Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/683955
Code: DX34C

Review By Victoria Roberts Siczak

Masterful suspense!
An intriguing tale of suspense and mayhem, "The Good Dictator," is more than an alien invasion apocalypse. Author Goncalo J. Nunes Dias delivers an extraordinary tale of human perception and survival. A mysterious green object lands on the moon, however no one including the authorities believe the device may be cataclysmic. A ordinary man, Gustavo, and a few of his friends, decide to formulate a survival tactics, just in case. This is not an easy task, because everyone else thinks he is being somewhat neurotic. When the inevitable happens, and most of the world's population is annihilated, Gustavo must try to rebuild some sort of society in a world where civilization no longer exists. An intricate storyline, unique characters, and chilling aspects will have you turning pages until the end. 5 stars, sci-fi fans...recommended read!

https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/pdp/profile/AKLIY4BLF0P9W/ref=cm_cr_rdp_pdp_enth

Only Today (7 of March) - It's Free on Amazon

Today (7 of March) you can do the download of the book for free directly from amazon:

The Good Dictator I – The Rise of an Empire
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N0FTZ4O

Win a print copy of the book

Goodreads Book Giveaway

The Good Dictator

by Gonçalo J. Nunes Dias

Giveaway ends March 21, 2017.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter Giveaway

Review by Grady

See the review on goodreads

Portuguese born Gonçalo J. Nunes Dias graduated in Environmental Engineering and Natural Resources of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco. He lives today in the Basque Country, Spain and on his social media listing addresses himself and an author, ornithologist and a cork tree expert! THE GOOD DICTATOR is his debut novel – and it promises to be the first in a series Gonçalo is calling ‘The Birth of an Empire. The translation form the Portuguese is by Ethan Mortimore. 

Gonçalo has created a character that is likely to become as well known as the similar characters of other world journeys as Jonathan Swift’s Lemuel Gulliver in his 1726 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS – the destination of this fantasy is of course the moon. With an amazing immediacy of skill we are introduced to our ‘hero’ Gustavo in a manner that allows us to identify with him – ‘Gustavo looked at the rear view mirror. He was thirty-seven years old and he already noted the years on him; he was becoming bald. He already had a respectable widow's peak that insisted on increasing with the years. Truth be told, the loss of hair had concerned him quite a bit when he first noticed, (back when he counted twenty-eight springs) that his hairline was receding. He did not want to become like his father or his grandfather; but after plenty of reading about the matter he realized that he did not have that much to say on his fateful biological heritage. He had bright blue eyes and his wrinkles already began to stand out around them. His face was very round and his neck was slim. He once had had fleshy lips, but over the years, they had begun to become thinner and thinner. He was not the handsome boy he once was anymore, but he was still an attractive man. He was 1.80m tall, and had a dry, slim body – as a result of his weekly hundred kilometer-long bicycle ride. He worked at Vila Franca de Xira's City Hall, an old building which had been restored many times, and that was right in the center of the city, along with the noisy and stinking city market. He had been working there as a senior computer technician for ten years. He had started when he was twenty-seven years old, after getting his degree in computer engineering from the University of Lisbon. This had been his job ever since he had arrived at the City Hall.’

But this average sort of man we son learn is not the least bit average - he loathes his in laws, has fallen out of love with his wife, and treats his job as a secondary nuisance. As the summary suggests, ‘An unidentified object parked on the moon - and no one seems to know where it came from. Gustavo, a middle-aged computer programmer with a comfortable and grey life, decides to make a list of what he would need to survive a hypothetical attack. He becomes obsessed with the list, spends a fortune, robs a drugstore and his own family and actually the majority of people think Gustavo was being paranoid and delusional with preparation for the world to fall to pieces. Yet when the inevitable happens and aliens destroy most of the world’s population, Gustavo is ready. Especially as it puts everyone surviving back into the dark ages. Now hunting, fishing, and growing food have become the priorities. And Gustavo is the new Good Dictator. 

A thoroughly enjoyable book, this story also provides considerable food for though as we all are wondering about the state of existence on the planet at this increasingly absurd time in history. Gonçalo J. Nunes Dias – learn how to pronounce it and remember it as a writer who is likely to become a controversial seer!

Interview and excerpts with Nada Adel

Really great to work with Nada - Nadaness In Motion. Only three questions about the book and I answered, mostly, with excerpts.


http://nadanessinmotion.blogspot.com.eg/2017/02/author-interview-with-excerpts-good.html