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The Game: The Jester Book 1
‘He might not have caught the Jester, but he’d accomplished one thing: he’d managed to be in the same time and place as him. But can he do it again?’
David Sinclair wants to get back home to his own time, but to do so he has to catch a man who calls himself The Jester - even though there’s nothing funny about him.
The tentative mental connection they share enables David to track his antagonist, but catching him proves difficult when The Jester is able to step into random people and appear as them.
Rob, a friend David makes in one of the parallel times, works out a successful trap, but, once caught, The Jester isn’t amused they’ve joined forces and makes them both play again, with devastating results for Rob.
Led through dark dystopian times, David tries to work out if his suspicions are correct: Is his girlfriend working with The Jester? Did she recruit David to play his depraved games? But finding out the truth isn’t easy when you're slipping through time.
Described as Inter-dimensional hide and seek by one reader, The Game is book one in a dark, sci-fi fantasy series, which gives a new meaning to time travel.
David Sinclair wants to get back home to his own time, but to do so he has to catch a man who calls himself The Jester - even though there’s nothing funny about him.
The tentative mental connection they share enables David to track his antagonist, but catching him proves difficult when The Jester is able to step into random people and appear as them.
Rob, a friend David makes in one of the parallel times, works out a successful trap, but, once caught, The Jester isn’t amused they’ve joined forces and makes them both play again, with devastating results for Rob.
Led through dark dystopian times, David tries to work out if his suspicions are correct: Is his girlfriend working with The Jester? Did she recruit David to play his depraved games? But finding out the truth isn’t easy when you're slipping through time.
Described as Inter-dimensional hide and seek by one reader, The Game is book one in a dark, sci-fi fantasy series, which gives a new meaning to time travel.
96 pages, Paperback
Published January 18, 2023
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Miranda Kate
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Go-to authors are Stephen King, James Herbert, Terry Pratchett, Raymond Feist and Clive Barker, with Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, Robert A Heinlein and lots of others in between.
It's not so much about loving particular genres, as much as finding stories and characters to engage and resonate with - but I will always head for Horror, Thrillers, and Science Fiction, before any others (my guilty pleasure is Self-Help.)
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Go-to authors are Stephen King, James Herbert, Terry Pratchett, Raymond Feist and Clive Barker, with Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, Robert A Heinlein and lots of others in between.
It's not so much about loving particular genres, as much as finding stories and characters to engage and resonate with - but I will always head for Horror, Thrillers, and Science Fiction, before any others (my guilty pleasure is Self-Help.)
I write dark stuff, sci-fi stuff, surreal stuff, psychological stuff and a mixture of all four.
I also write as M K Boers
I have a newsletter, which you can sign up for here.
I'm on Facebook
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Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews
November 10, 2021
This is a good book. Only thing for me its kinda flippy floppy. It kinda confused me with all the time changes in the story. I even had trouble keeping the characters straight in each time frame. The story kinda reminded me of the Squid Gamers but no one does. They just keep playing the game forever or when the semester decided the person is finished with the game.
May 22, 2021
I was given this book in exchange for an honest review.
This was a fast-paced and interesting read. David ends up in a game of inter-dimensional travel. He just wants to go home, but can he find the Jester? Did the Jester choose him on purpose? Why? What was the deal that Isabella and Annie made?
This is a well-told short story. It's complete in itself, but I have so many questions and just want to read more to find those answers.
This was a fast-paced and interesting read. David ends up in a game of inter-dimensional travel. He just wants to go home, but can he find the Jester? Did the Jester choose him on purpose? Why? What was the deal that Isabella and Annie made?
This is a well-told short story. It's complete in itself, but I have so many questions and just want to read more to find those answers.
June 3, 2021
😳😰 Mysterious and complex.
The Jester is in the large white corridor of the asylum.
In front of him there are many doors, but also surveillance cameras.
As he escaped, he musn’t be seen.
He counts the doors, chooses one...
Inside, a young blonde woman combs the hair of a young woman with dark hair.
The Jester is noticed by them and beckons them to follow him...
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A dark, complicated dystopia, which tells the adventures of David, catapulted into a parallel world.
It reads very quickly, but I’m still very puzzle by this reading.
I’m not sure what to think about it...😳
The Jester is in the large white corridor of the asylum.
In front of him there are many doors, but also surveillance cameras.
As he escaped, he musn’t be seen.
He counts the doors, chooses one...
Inside, a young blonde woman combs the hair of a young woman with dark hair.
The Jester is noticed by them and beckons them to follow him...
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A dark, complicated dystopia, which tells the adventures of David, catapulted into a parallel world.
It reads very quickly, but I’m still very puzzle by this reading.
I’m not sure what to think about it...😳
May 31, 2021
Puzzling Plot
A strange story that raises more questions than answers. David is wandering through time and places, but doesn't know how or why. The characters are mere shadows in one sense, but who are they really?
A strange story that raises more questions than answers. David is wandering through time and places, but doesn't know how or why. The characters are mere shadows in one sense, but who are they really?
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