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Sublime Messages
A high school taken hostage, a man who claims to be a god, and a darkly obsessive teen . . . When Vanessa Tan is tasked with delving into the background of a likely maniac in order to stop him from mutilating teenagers, she's prepared for a hopeless task and potential violence. What she isn't prepared for are the circumstances surrounding his rise to terror, mounting gruesome murders, and the increasing likelihood that someone, somewhere, is manipulating the very chronology of her life.
324 pages, Paperback
Published February 12, 2024
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December 22, 2024
Fantastic!
My first read by McGrath, but certainly not my last. SUBLIME MESSAGES is absolutely stunning. It's fast, beautifully written, and filled with brilliant twists and turns. Highly recommended!
My first read by McGrath, but certainly not my last. SUBLIME MESSAGES is absolutely stunning. It's fast, beautifully written, and filled with brilliant twists and turns. Highly recommended!
August 9, 2024
This book is a crossroad built on a ground of intersection under a sky of what might be and what never was. Tomorrow is today and today is yesterday. A Deja vu of a Deja vu. Extremely well written. Builds in tension and pace and the twists are worth each page turn.
On a personal level, Ruby is by far my favourite character. She’s the wilderness in her. Reckless and distraught, yet menacing and haunting. And like all of the best characters I’ve read, utterly tragic. I found her inner workings to be the most human for me.
Well done, SQ McGrath! Another terrifying and haunting story! Highly recommend!
On a personal level, Ruby is by far my favourite character. She’s the wilderness in her. Reckless and distraught, yet menacing and haunting. And like all of the best characters I’ve read, utterly tragic. I found her inner workings to be the most human for me.
Well done, SQ McGrath! Another terrifying and haunting story! Highly recommend!
March 7, 2024
Wow!!! Such an amazing book! I was sucked in from the very beginning and it just kept getting better and better. Such a wild and intense story! There were so many twists and events that I never saw coming! It had horror, mystery, dark scenes and some different timelines. I truly enjoyed every bit of this story!
September 26, 2024
What a wild ride!! This book made me question what I’d just read, but in a good way! This is a dark, twisted tale that will keep you guessing and realizing you were wrong about what you thought! There are so many things that you just never see coming! Bravo!! Highly recommend!!
April 25, 2024
I'd like to thank S.Q. McGrath for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review, I enjoyed this novel.
What a rabbit hole .
Full of cultism and curses, violence, and time travel— Sublime Messages by S.Q. McGrath was a genre-bending horror story that read like a fever dream.
The story follows an interesting, yet quite confusing cast of characters. There's Vanessa Tan—a profiler called back into the career she left to put the pieces together when a cult holds a high school hostage. Ruby Rouge, a rambunctious teen who is utterly infatuated with the long hair, chiseled, older Damien. And Damien himself— handsome and mysterious. Possibly deadly. Could be a cult leader?
But all of what you think you know about our three main characters will leave you as the story presses on.
Told in two different but merging perspectives, Ruby's and Vanessa's— the book begins to unravel and spiral. You fall down the rabbit hole while also investigating a deadly, dangerous, and violent cult.
Who is villain and who is victim? As you read, time travel becomes an integral part of the storyline. At times entirely confusing, answers are eventually revealed.
And you realize time is looping, repeating.
How can Vanessa Tan stop the murders of hundreds of children before it happens again? End a cult leader's murderous streak— and solve her own past at the same time? Sublime Messages does a fantastic job at exploring all the inner workings of this story while staying on a fairly consistent track.
There's a lot going on in this book, which is why I'm giving a ★★★★ star rating. I didn't quite know what was going on with our main character, Vanessa, sometimes. When I thought one thing, it ultimately felt like another, and that could be my lack of understanding— but it made the book the tiniest bit confusing for me.
What I did love was the incredibly realistic characters and all of the magical realism. I enjoyed the world-building of the setting, Lone Rock. It felt just right for the novel— a small, seemingly desert town with not much going on. The writing was perfectly descriptive with great prose. Both the synopsis of the book and its plot were right up my alley. Cults and time travel should grab your attention. I was definitely the target audience for this read, and if you enjoy what I do, this one may be for you.
What a rabbit hole .
Full of cultism and curses, violence, and time travel— Sublime Messages by S.Q. McGrath was a genre-bending horror story that read like a fever dream.
The story follows an interesting, yet quite confusing cast of characters. There's Vanessa Tan—a profiler called back into the career she left to put the pieces together when a cult holds a high school hostage. Ruby Rouge, a rambunctious teen who is utterly infatuated with the long hair, chiseled, older Damien. And Damien himself— handsome and mysterious. Possibly deadly. Could be a cult leader?
But all of what you think you know about our three main characters will leave you as the story presses on.
Told in two different but merging perspectives, Ruby's and Vanessa's— the book begins to unravel and spiral. You fall down the rabbit hole while also investigating a deadly, dangerous, and violent cult.
Who is villain and who is victim? As you read, time travel becomes an integral part of the storyline. At times entirely confusing, answers are eventually revealed.
And you realize time is looping, repeating.
How can Vanessa Tan stop the murders of hundreds of children before it happens again? End a cult leader's murderous streak— and solve her own past at the same time? Sublime Messages does a fantastic job at exploring all the inner workings of this story while staying on a fairly consistent track.
There's a lot going on in this book, which is why I'm giving a ★★★★ star rating. I didn't quite know what was going on with our main character, Vanessa, sometimes. When I thought one thing, it ultimately felt like another, and that could be my lack of understanding— but it made the book the tiniest bit confusing for me.
What I did love was the incredibly realistic characters and all of the magical realism. I enjoyed the world-building of the setting, Lone Rock. It felt just right for the novel— a small, seemingly desert town with not much going on. The writing was perfectly descriptive with great prose. Both the synopsis of the book and its plot were right up my alley. Cults and time travel should grab your attention. I was definitely the target audience for this read, and if you enjoy what I do, this one may be for you.
May 7, 2024
Sublime Messages was insanely good. It will pull you deep into the pages of this twisted tale of mayham written by S.Q Mcgrath . She will have you questioning what will happen next, she has a way of writing that was thoroughly enjoyable.
I hope to read more by her in the near future. She has a handful books that all sound so good.
I hope to read more by her in the near future. She has a handful books that all sound so good.
June 1, 2024
Genius!
This book is complete genius. Oh my god. Definitely recommend a read. S. Q. McGrath does a good job at making the mundane storyline extraordinary.
This book is complete genius. Oh my god. Definitely recommend a read. S. Q. McGrath does a good job at making the mundane storyline extraordinary.
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