Review: CHILLING, IMAGINATIVE & ENTHRALLING!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 18, 2014
This great story starts off in Bolivia, with Mateo Espinoza and others making a special trip with a ten-year-old girl, a trip that one feels the girl's life depends upon. The story then switches to New York, and Carlo, a software computer programmer; we learn about his family, including his sister Josephine, who is terminally ill. Carlo spots a pretty, dark-haired woman in a pub, and then on the Metro, but whenever he looks for her, he can't find her. He bumps into her in San Francisco, and strikes up a friendship with her. He learns that this hauntingly sad-faced young Hispanic woman is named Emilene, and comes from Bolivia. We then follow their growing relationship, with a series of meetings and other times when she doesn't show up or disappears. The other thing of course is that it becomes pretty obvious, if not immediately so to Carlo, that no-one else can see her. She is only visible to him. I won't reveal any more of this imaginative, haunting tale full of twists and turns involving Emilene, and Carlo's sister, let alone the final, heart-stopping twist. Once again, Dennis Butler shows himself to be one of the most jaw-droppingly original of writers of the paranormal, the unexpected, the incredibly imaginative, chilling and enthralling of situations... Grab this, and you'll be hooked from beginning to end.