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Resolution
214 pages, Hardcover
Published June 10, 2024
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David Ellis
87 books2,377 followersDavid Ellis is a lawyer and the Edgar Allan Poe Award winner for Best First Novel for Line of Vision. Ellis attended Northwestern Law School and began his legal career in private practice in Chicago in 1993. He served as the House Prosecutor who tried and convicted Illinois Governor Blagojevich in the Impeachment Trial before the Illinois Senate. He was elected to the Illinois Appellate Court in 2014 and took office December 1, 2014. Ellis currently lives outside Chicago with his wife and three children.
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July 15, 2024
Resolution is a collection of 4 short stories, with mystery and fantastical elements surrounding each one. The characters are strikingly real, their tales are somewhat horrifying but intriguing, and the their adventures take wild turns at every point.
Plot **Spoilers**
Poly Smeekers Ghost is a tale of a couple that sees a ghost outside of their window and must wait to see if it brings a positive or negative omen.
Penlygon Mote is a noble house which a different couple than the first story wins the chance to stay at, only to go on an adventure with a spirit that leads to each of their rebirths.
The Secret Room is a tale of a boy who must spend the night in a haunted house, and ends up reading a story and finding the author before the story is over. The author becomes a character in his own tale to his own horror.
Resolution is a story of a son and his father drinking at pub, and the son goes on an adventure through portal-bearing pubs to find his dad. It is a story depicting dementia and the frustrating confusion that accompanies it.
The Secret Room was my favorite of the four, but I was frustrated with the lack of endings in each short story, most of them are not completely resolved but that is likely part of the draw. It is left to the readers’ imagination and creativity to complete the ending.
Plot **Spoilers**
Poly Smeekers Ghost is a tale of a couple that sees a ghost outside of their window and must wait to see if it brings a positive or negative omen.
Penlygon Mote is a noble house which a different couple than the first story wins the chance to stay at, only to go on an adventure with a spirit that leads to each of their rebirths.
The Secret Room is a tale of a boy who must spend the night in a haunted house, and ends up reading a story and finding the author before the story is over. The author becomes a character in his own tale to his own horror.
Resolution is a story of a son and his father drinking at pub, and the son goes on an adventure through portal-bearing pubs to find his dad. It is a story depicting dementia and the frustrating confusion that accompanies it.
The Secret Room was my favorite of the four, but I was frustrated with the lack of endings in each short story, most of them are not completely resolved but that is likely part of the draw. It is left to the readers’ imagination and creativity to complete the ending.
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