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Thin Places
A child vanishes on a transcontinental flight
Ewan Coles is an average person trying to get a better job. While on a flight from Perth to New York, Ewan meets a strange little girl who seems to know more about his books, and his dreams, than he does. The girl suddenly disappears and Ewan is tossed from his waking life into an unfolding dreamworld.
A woman vanishes from memory
Ewan manages to return home only to be confronted with evidence of a fianc� named Aimee whom he's never met.
A demon of his own design
A creature made of nightmare chases Ewan, threatening his loved ones in both the waking and dream worlds. He must seek out the missing girl and discover the truth behind his mysterious, missing Aimee before his life is consumed by the monster.
But first he must wake up.
He can't wake up.
Is he?
Ewan Coles is an average person trying to get a better job. While on a flight from Perth to New York, Ewan meets a strange little girl who seems to know more about his books, and his dreams, than he does. The girl suddenly disappears and Ewan is tossed from his waking life into an unfolding dreamworld.
A woman vanishes from memory
Ewan manages to return home only to be confronted with evidence of a fianc� named Aimee whom he's never met.
A demon of his own design
A creature made of nightmare chases Ewan, threatening his loved ones in both the waking and dream worlds. He must seek out the missing girl and discover the truth behind his mysterious, missing Aimee before his life is consumed by the monster.
But first he must wake up.
He can't wake up.
Is he?
280 pages, Paperback
Published December 1, 2020
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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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