Review: Dark, Edgy
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 8, 2014
Twisted, dark and very disturbing, I Am the New God by Nicole Cushing pushes the reader’s comfort zone as a delusional religious fanatic, who has “spoken with the saints,” becomes the one to prepare the new god to take over from the current God, Yep, THAT God. Gregory is an unbalanced college student on medications, which he discontinues as he begins to believe the letters of a stranger, begins to believe that he is the new god, able to change the world that will learn to fear and adore him. Even his failed attempt to walk on water has been rationalized as being because water as we know it is the product of the old God. Are we in for epic change?Nicole Cushing boldly makes strong, black strokes through this story that includes mutilation and murder. There is no character that she asks us to like or relate to, but rather fear, because if they exist in the real world, all Hell could literally break loose. Ms. Cushing has a gift for writing, she is able to create a highly tense world that feels ominous and skewed.