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Inner Currents #1
The Balize
When Zen declines to marry the woman his wealthy, society-conscious parents have chosen, he's disowned.
Exiled from London, he acts as caretaker aboard one of the family's ships, laid up in the West Country due to the world economic crisis. Within the dark and empty spaces of the Amber, anchored in a stunningly beautiful estuary, are also Harry, Andy and Steph who have their own reasons for being there.
Rather than escaping his problems, Zen finds himself being stalked by a local legendary apparition and faced with a threat to his life.
Exiled from London, he acts as caretaker aboard one of the family's ships, laid up in the West Country due to the world economic crisis. Within the dark and empty spaces of the Amber, anchored in a stunningly beautiful estuary, are also Harry, Andy and Steph who have their own reasons for being there.
Rather than escaping his problems, Zen finds himself being stalked by a local legendary apparition and faced with a threat to his life.
566 pages, Paperback
First published January 21, 2015
About the author
Theo Lemos
3 books4 followersI come from a seafaring background and, for as many generations back as can be traced, my ancestors, on both sides, were seamen and shipowners.
Although my ancestral home is a tiny island in the Mediterranean, I was born in 1951 in New York City and spent the first six years of my life on a working cargo ship with three generations of my family.
My parents moved to London when I was twelve and, having completed my education, I worked in shipping, managing my father’s ships. However, following his death in 1984, and prompted by the decline in trade due to the world recession, the business was wound up. I then worked as a self-employed financial adviser, writing in my spare time, until 2013, when my wife and I moved to Devon and I started writing full time.
My novels are about real-life events with elements of the supernatural, and are inspired by my rather unusual life experiences.
Apart from writing, I love travelling, walking, photography, cooking and reading, and I have a keen interest in mythology, particularly Greek, and legends.
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September 8, 2026
I forced myself to finish this book, if only out of spite because I was convinced that it would be terrible all the way through - and I was right.
A good 90% of this book could have been cut out and it wouldn't have affected the story in any way. There were pages and pages and pages of the boat and how it needed repairs, and what they were doing to repair it, and how the repairs would hold up over the winter. It was so fucking dull. There was also the weird b-plot about the lesbian woman's advocate who was convincing teenagers to kill themselves? I didn't understand why that was even part of the story, it literally didn't affect anything else apart from giving Zen a reason to stop seeing Ann - who he didn't want to shag in the first place because she was engaged, but every man in this story thinks with his dick, so of course he slept with her.
The fact that Elizabeth knew enough about the police and phones and hypnotherapy to plan out their story for the police at the end was baffling, I know she was living through Alex for a long time but that just seemed insanely far-fetched and out of character. Also, she had this entire plan and was mad with revenge, but one conversation with zen changed her mind completely? I don't buy it.
The amount of nothing that happens in this book is astounding - the supernatural elements make no sense and don't get explained, the rescue at the end is unbelievable, the boat shit goes into way too much detail, and the only characters who are remotely likeable are Steph and Stephen. I don't recommend this book, I can't understand why it's called the first part in a trilogy, and I am not planning on ever picking up anything else by this author. I'm giving it 1.5 stars, rounded down to 1, and this book is immediately being donated to the charity shop to make someone else die of boredom.
A good 90% of this book could have been cut out and it wouldn't have affected the story in any way. There were pages and pages and pages of the boat and how it needed repairs, and what they were doing to repair it, and how the repairs would hold up over the winter. It was so fucking dull. There was also the weird b-plot about the lesbian woman's advocate who was convincing teenagers to kill themselves? I didn't understand why that was even part of the story, it literally didn't affect anything else apart from giving Zen a reason to stop seeing Ann - who he didn't want to shag in the first place because she was engaged, but every man in this story thinks with his dick, so of course he slept with her.
The fact that Elizabeth knew enough about the police and phones and hypnotherapy to plan out their story for the police at the end was baffling, I know she was living through Alex for a long time but that just seemed insanely far-fetched and out of character. Also, she had this entire plan and was mad with revenge, but one conversation with zen changed her mind completely? I don't buy it.
The amount of nothing that happens in this book is astounding - the supernatural elements make no sense and don't get explained, the rescue at the end is unbelievable, the boat shit goes into way too much detail, and the only characters who are remotely likeable are Steph and Stephen. I don't recommend this book, I can't understand why it's called the first part in a trilogy, and I am not planning on ever picking up anything else by this author. I'm giving it 1.5 stars, rounded down to 1, and this book is immediately being donated to the charity shop to make someone else die of boredom.
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