Review: Iain Rowan - a new favorite for me
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 4, 2014
Ice Age is a great short story collection in the horror genre. Each of the eight compact tales is a gem! Mysterious and believable, they come from everyday common place occurrences as well as dystopian futures. The results are somewhere between totally unexpected and delightfully, horrifyingly surprising.For myself, I am so glad that I ran across this author - a happy acquisition as a free Kindle book! (There are JEWELS in those offerings!) Of course, this taste of Iain Rowan's work sent me on a shopping spree for more.Ice Age containsLilies, where we encounter a city at war and a young soldier that can see dead people. In this situation however, he is not alone...seems like it's a regular thing.In The Call, a man escapes to the coast from a city filled with memories of his lost wife and daughter.A story that begins simply with a broken window in a vacant house along a commuter's daily walk to work can be found in  Through the Window.A typical couple lost among country roads at night is the starting point for Driving in Circles.Sighted takes us to another city at war and the dead that won't stay that way.In The Circular Path, a man revisits an early childhood home and confront his mysterious past.Here Comes the New Way gives us a vision of a hard future and a horrifying "new way" that is sweeping the impoverished and starving populace.Finally, in the title story, a man left by his wife of 11 years begins to freeze, trapped in his own private Ice Age.If you enjoy this genre, do yourself a favor and find Ice Age. You will not be disappointed.