Review: Fun Eccentric Character Filled Comedy
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 13, 2013
If you're after a good light fun read you won't go wrong with Mr Ray.  In the style of Carl Hiaasen, Dave Barry, Bill Fitzhugh and other eccentric character filled comedy novelists Adam Perry has brought to the pages a unique spin on the paranoia, fear, wonder and well nostalgia as well of America's Area 51.  This isn't maybe a plausible reality of what really goes on there but a fun work of fiction doesn't need to be that.  If you've just finished a horror novel, serial killer thriller or other heavier subject matter book and want something light before you get back into your next darker place book, Mr Ray won't let you down.I don't really want to give away any of the surprises of the plot but let's just say it's a great mistaken identity, fish out water type book.  Basically Ray is a loner, a keeps to himself type of guy who is not afraid of hard work in his home or at the supermarket where he works as a janitor.  He has some sort of social phobia and worries about saying something stupid so hasn't spoken a word in years which has of course resulted in old lady gossip types in his neighbourhood spreading all kinds of rumours about him. Meanwhile an up himself jerk type, who only lets people call him by his last name Albatross, accidentally uploaded some video footage of himself onto YouTube, where he was singing into a bottle of hair gel that became next worldwide viral video big hit.  This has gotten the attention of recruiters from Area 51.  Albatross' selfish actions force Karma to play its hand, causing one of the many victims in his wake on the way to meet his abductors (agents giving him transport to Area 51) to be mistakenly abducted instead. That victim is of course Mr Ray who is too afraid to speak up letting them know they've got the wrong guy.