Review: A Unique Story that Explores The Human Psyche...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 2, 2012
The words of Edgar Allen Poe guide one family's lives for three generations, dictating nearly everything they do. Outwardly, the Poes are the aristocracy of a small Texas town - richer, smarter, more cultivated than their neighbors. Those appearances draw fifteen year old Sissy to them, because Sissy wants more out of life than her dying little town can offer. Gradually she is seduced farther and farther into the Poes' world and their hideous secrets, until they almost prove her undoing. As with FRANKENSTEIN'S DAEMON, Michael Meeske has taken the classic works of a master and refashioned them into a unique story that explores the human psyche with all of its darkness and its resilience, in ways that are sure to surprise and even shock the reader. I can't wait to see what he does next.