Reality Shift

by R.A. Carter-Squire

The woods around Carter Nebraska have been silent and asleep for hundreds of years but now they're awake and hungry.

Ray Jacobs is pitted against the evil that has awakened. He has help in the form of the town doctor, his girlfriend and the local Sheriff but their foe is a shape shifter, cunning and ruthless. There will be no prisoners as they battle for their own survival and perhaps the fate of the entire country. Ray was spared once long ago but there will be no pity this time.

239 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 23, 2012

Reviews

[Sheila · Rating 4 out of 5]

Slow and scary, Rick Carter-Squire’s Reality Shift reads like a cross between horror homegrown around the haunted campfire and a teen movie where watchers shriek “Don’t go there,” and “Try the hardware store.” Past abuses have molded its protagonists more than modern science, and the details don’t always ring consistently or logical. But the plot is cleverly intriguing and definitely scary. Character-study backstories offer depth of feeling and emotion, encouraging readers to relate; and the spoken-word mixed-tense feel of the writing offers a certain immediacy too, at least to readers familiar with the culture and style. The story’s filled with horrors, twists and turns, and that last-stand-in-a-last-ditch-townscape feel of small-world, big-monster horror fiction. But, “It’s quiet, too quiet,” thinks Faith as a final battle looms, the past replaying itself and a truly surprising truth slowly revealing its face. The ending’s great, and I just wished the story had moved faster to unfold its mystery.

Disclosure: I received a free ecopy of this novel during a blog tour and I promised my honest review.

[Morley Robertson · Rating 1 out of 5]

Don't bother

This was very incoherently written, switching from being written in present tense to past tense amd back again in the same sentence. The story tries in vain to develop characters only to have them disppear. This book was awful.