Review: A horse you hope is never ridden, but...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 13, 2013
Sleep much? Not after reading Blake's latest pulse-pounder. Upon A Pale Horse is a ride that takes the reader through a fun house of horrors too scary to be called entertainment. Though somehow he manages to get you interested in the characters even while you're tearing through the pages in hopes of discovering that his premise is nothing but a practical joke - you know, a note from the author that says, "Ha! Had you, didn't I? Don't worry, this is just fiction, go back to your lolly pops and rainbows." I warn you, reader, there is a note from the author...but it pretty much says the exact opposite. Many will read this, or start to read this, and fall into some preset scoff mode. I've heard such a reaction to this topic before. You know, all the typical responses - name calling, fingers in the ear, the mature stuff. As if calling someone a name is the trump card to the information presented. There's a proverb that says, He who answers a matter before hearing it is a fool. I think we would all be wise to hear Blake's message, consider his research, put aside the world we wish we lived in, and look at the evidence objectively. It's too scary not to. Is this a fun read? No, because we live in a world that not so long ago was putting people in ovens. If something like that was allowed to happen, anything is possible. Especially if those behind such experiments were later given jobs by other governments to continue their research. Oh, but I'm getting into the story now, and I don't want to give anything away. Will our refusal to believe that something like this could ever happen be the very thing that ensures that it will? Check out Blake's cautionary and exposing tale of a future we all hope never to see.