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Thin Places
A unicorn on Times Square, a missing child and a dead lover. Ewan must solve the riddles of the thin places before his demons kill again. Thin Places is a slip-stream of UNconsciousness thrill ride that borrowed a cup of horror from it’s carny neighbor and will leave you Am I dreaming this, or is someone else dreaming me?
272 pages, Paperback
Published September 7, 2012
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M.L. McIntosh
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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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