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Thin Places
Ewan Coles is having a nightmare. We're in it.
A transcontinental flight and a vanishing girl send Ewan Coles on a journey to the darkest corners of his mind. He fights to return, never sure whether he is dreaming or waking, but deadly certain of one thing. He is not alone. A dark creature with a past entwined with his own follows Ewan back to the waking world. There it will consume his family and loved ones, working its way further into our reality from the thin place from which it crawled: Ewan.
Ewan is in a race with time to stop a monster from his subconscious from destroying everything in creation.
Will he wake up in time, or will he slip ever further into the recesses of his dream world?
A transcontinental flight and a vanishing girl send Ewan Coles on a journey to the darkest corners of his mind. He fights to return, never sure whether he is dreaming or waking, but deadly certain of one thing. He is not alone. A dark creature with a past entwined with his own follows Ewan back to the waking world. There it will consume his family and loved ones, working its way further into our reality from the thin place from which it crawled: Ewan.
Ewan is in a race with time to stop a monster from his subconscious from destroying everything in creation.
Will he wake up in time, or will he slip ever further into the recesses of his dream world?
272 pages, Kindle or paperback
Published September 7, 2012
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January 1, 2018
I received my copy of this book via a Goodreads giveaway, which did not influence my review.
"What do you think?" Those are the words staring at me above the little box into which I'm now typing, and I honestly don't know how to answer.
Ewan Coles, on a transcontinental flight from Australia to the USA, encounters a young girl who vanishes. And then things get weirder.
Let's start with the good: Ewan was a likable enough character. I enjoyed the little pop-culture references sprinkled throughout the novel. I liked the humor the author brought to the book through wordplay.
Now for the not-so-good parts: The editing could have been better. A lot. Spelling errors (vlack instead of black, bvack instead of back, blonde and blondee instead of blond and blonde, lightening instead of lightning)—I could go on—and at the beginning of the book I informed a family member that it felt like a thesaurus had exploded and every single adverb had drifted onto the page before me. The plot. Hmm. Well, it was hard to follow (for me, at least). I like a good nonlinear tale as well as the next guy (loved Emily St. John Martel's Station Eleven that I read earlier this year), but the timeline and disjointed storytelling in this novel just weren't well done.
I felt like there was a lot of potential, but the dark fantasy/horror elements as well as Ewan's unreliability as a narrator just weren't executed well.
I do think people who enjoy books with a lot of heavy symbolism, who don't mind editorial issues, who like to be kept guessing as to whether a character is sane or mad may find this interesting. It just was not right for me.
"What do you think?" Those are the words staring at me above the little box into which I'm now typing, and I honestly don't know how to answer.
Ewan Coles, on a transcontinental flight from Australia to the USA, encounters a young girl who vanishes. And then things get weirder.
Let's start with the good: Ewan was a likable enough character. I enjoyed the little pop-culture references sprinkled throughout the novel. I liked the humor the author brought to the book through wordplay.
Now for the not-so-good parts: The editing could have been better. A lot. Spelling errors (vlack instead of black, bvack instead of back, blonde and blondee instead of blond and blonde, lightening instead of lightning)—I could go on—and at the beginning of the book I informed a family member that it felt like a thesaurus had exploded and every single adverb had drifted onto the page before me. The plot. Hmm. Well, it was hard to follow (for me, at least). I like a good nonlinear tale as well as the next guy (loved Emily St. John Martel's Station Eleven that I read earlier this year), but the timeline and disjointed storytelling in this novel just weren't well done.
I felt like there was a lot of potential, but the dark fantasy/horror elements as well as Ewan's unreliability as a narrator just weren't executed well.
I do think people who enjoy books with a lot of heavy symbolism, who don't mind editorial issues, who like to be kept guessing as to whether a character is sane or mad may find this interesting. It just was not right for me.
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