Review: When bad intentions turn evil...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 15, 2011
Opening a JCM book, one should be aware the experience will be unique. I can name only three or four authors who bend a narrative with skill even to match what Mr. McIntyre brings to his pages. Jason does not leave off at telling a tale. He puts you into it, as a very uncomfortable observer.Bled quite lives up to every such expectation, yet it confounded me with its simplicity. The plot is A+B=C. Just understand those are not characters in the alphabet. They are notes of music; there are a myriad of ways to make them sound.I hear and experience much more than the lines Jason wrote. He only says that a character feels a certain thing, and their chill becomes mine. It is the quantity of things to feel, reading Bled, that is so stunning, because the situation is stark, natural, almost predictable. And with hardly a twist of his tune, Jason has me blanching in horror, just because an out of balance vent fan is noticeably present in his setting. I wanted to run, to escape the fan. But I cannot get out of the room he put me into, right beside his two characters - feeling everything they feel, but horrified at what I see. He has made me unable to look away from them.Bled is truly a magnificent work of writing. Don't wait too much longer to read it.