Review: Amazing, mystifying, surreal adventure story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 22, 2011
Diary of the Displaced by Glynn James is an amazing, mystifying, surreal adventure story. A man wakes up. It is completely dark, and he has to work his way around by feel. He is bruised and battered. He's lost his cell. Where is he? What happened? He slowly discovers he is in a strange place. He makes friends with a demon dog and a ghost or two. He tries to make sense of it all, while working on survival.The author beautifully captures the emotion that someone in this situation would feel, and pulls the reader completely into the story. I read all night, trying to work out (with the protagonist, James) what on earth was happening. James explores this weird and wonderful world, and so vividly describes it that I felt I was there along with him. It was a bit like being inside a Salvador Dali painting - everything was a bit surreal, with elements of the familiar and real. The ending perfectly explains it all. I have just purchased a second book based in the same world, Chasing Spirits. I suppose I will be up all night again!