Ultimate Resort

by David Scott Ewers

An artists' community is planning something big for this year's gathering - something to put them back on the map. The sudden influx of capital piques the interest of a couple of investigators searching for the mysterious benefactors.
Thousands of miles away Avery Krizan and Aisha Sandoval recount their journey through Primera, their encounters with the local color, and what exactly led them to this place. Was it the search for a book? Wanderlust? Some sort of conspiracy? "Build you and the world will come" and in time all three things - the dream, the dream-come-true, and the memory - will merge.

286 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 1, 2017

About the author

David Scott Ewers was born in and raised in Pomona, California. He moved to San Francisco in 1989 and to Oakland in 2002, where he currently resides with his wife and daughter. He has been writing, making music and engaging in various marginal pursuits for decades.

Reviews

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book! Great layering of time, place, character and story. The main character Avery is a dissatisfied performer - plays Tiny Tim songs in costume at The Love Inn, a home for the aging in Southern California. We follow him through his escape, which includes bringing a bunch of interesting unrelated characters together for a sort of hijacked cultural “happening” in Morocco. There’s mystery and travel. The narratives are highly relevant to our time: cultural dislocation, cults of personality, power and surveillance. The book also includes a beautiful narrative set in California’s early Mission Period, from the point of view of Kwete, a young Native American boy who encounters La Mision. It sounds like a lot going on, but I loved the weave of stories and characters. Some are hilarious, others petrifying. There’s fun word play in this book, too, which logophiles will appreciate, and cultural references, many of which I’m sure I missed entirely but others would be thrilled to “get”. Overall this was a really enjoyable and engaging book.

[Sunny Smog · Rating 5 out of 5]

Don't expect to be a passive reader with this book. Prepare to engage and pay attention in a freaky adventure. I found the characters, tongue in cheek writing style, creative ideas really worth my time. The author's observant attention to detail really brought such vivid imagery to my mind. And often left me thinking "this could make a great movie". Not sure I've ever read anything like it and truly appreciated the effort at crafting such a different, strangely funny and fulfilling experience.

[Karen · Rating 1 out of 5]

Sorry but this book was not for me. I felt that the author wanted me to find a deeper meaning in each word. So I just didn’t get the story and found that I didn’ Want to.