Here There Be Dragons

by Jeff Rosenplot

We all have a past.
Some things, we show the world.
Others, we hide so far down even we forget them.
When Mia met Sean, it was like an explosion.
Together, they found each other.
And then they found the darkness.
Mia tried to forget.
And then she tried everything else.
But your first great love, it never really lets you go.
Sometimes the best past
is a dead one.

236 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 4, 2015

Reviews

[Susan Inman · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a hard book to like. I know the genre is "dark fiction". But I'm not sure I was prepared for how dark it turned out to be. It certainly was an interesting read. You can't fault the writing. There were some great analogies and very well written scenes. And the plotting makes sense, at least it does at the time. Each decision, each revelation seems plausible based on what has come before. At first you just go along for the ride. Then when you realize you are dealing with an unreliable narrator, you begin to look for ghosts under the beds and in the closets. And I think that's where it comes up short. There are plenty of people who have unspeakable pasts. There are skeletons in most of our closets, many at no fault of our own. It's what you do with those skeletons, how you treat that past that sets people apart. I guess it's not fair for me to fault the narrator for how she reacted to her past. I'm just not sure, even now, that I understand it or agree with it.

[Lloyd Russell]

I will have a review pretty soon. I will say that this is another very well-written book. I wii warn you, though, that in the author's bio, it says that he writes "dark fiction." That is a true statement!