Review: unusual
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 10, 2014
The Darkness Of The Womb by Richard B Knight4 StarsWhat an odd story! I can honestly say I have never read anything like this before so this book gets points for uniqueness right off the bat.Aiden is an unborn baby, but after seeing images of how his life is going to pan out he doesn’t want to be born and decides to jump from the tree of life. Unfortunately for him, the powers that be believe he is the new messiah and has to be born, so they do everything in their power to save him.In the ‘real’ world we have the boys parents, who are in their late forties and are going through work related issues and a difficult time financially. Both meet a sticky end when an accident leaves his mother, Marigold, in a coma and on the same day his father, Jeff loses his job and kills himself.We are then taken into an alternate level of existence with characters such as Logic, Imagination and Instinct and a whole host of other such like beings, and the battle is on between the ones wanting Aiden to live and the ones who want him to die.It is without doubt a ‘down the rabbit hole’ type of story, and I had to dig deep in my imagination to visualise the scene. The writing is very ‘male’ even without knowing the authors name, this was obvious just from the references made to Marigold’s ‘lady parts’ when we came across Love and Lust, no female would be so crass I’m sure!Though the story was not difficult to follow or understand, it wasn’t to my taste. I am not religious in anyway but I have the feeling there may be some out there who could be offended by this interpretation of what touches on a religious theme.Copy supplied for review