tl;dr It's like Jason Bourne running away while taking some acid.



No shit. The main premise may looks similar with The Bourne Identity; the main character wakes up in an amnesiac state and discovered that he's being hunted by some unknown mercenaries and their "Supervisor". But the differences lies in between the action scenes where the main character went on a trippy lane to discover his past; talking with a shady doctor, talking with a mysterious ghost, facing off against mysterious soldiers...

tl;dr It's like Jason Bourne running away while taking some acid.



No shit. The main premise may looks similar with The Bourne Identity; the main character wakes up in an amnesiac state and discovered that he's being hunted by some unknown mercenaries and their "Supervisor". But the differences lies in between the action scenes where the main character went on a trippy lane to discover his past; talking with a shady doctor, talking with a mysterious ghost, facing off against mysterious soldiers... All of them culminates on the discoveries that the main character has more than meets the eye.



I've read the Indonesian version and liked how the story unfolds. But there are some things that could be addressed. There are some words and phrases in English that was left untranslated but the Indonesian equivalent of that word exists. This may seems trivial but it broke the momentum for me. It's just out of place. Also, it seems that the simplest action like turning off a laptop should be explained in a technical, jumbled manner and had too much detail.



Lately I am studying about the "three act structure" concept of storytelling. Reading ALLBLACK, I could identify the acts as: 1. MC woke up in a boat and helped the crews to sail back to India; 2. MC being chased by the mercenaries; and 3. MC takes the offensive and went to Turkey. The flaw of this three act structure is that the climax and penultimate fight is all jumbled in the second act, while the third act only serves as "the reveal scene where it didn't really mattered at all" and a simple hook to the second book.



Lastly, the story is mainly set in India and Turkey, but I've felt that it actually set in a generic city :/ Other than that, I am excited to wait for the second book.