Review: Excellent Paranormal Fiction!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2014
I’ve deeply enjoyed Dennis Butler’s science fiction novels, so when I saw he’d written a paranormal, I figured why not give it a shot, and boy am I glad I did! The Lost Souls of Gingerbread Lane offers a unique take on the paranormal genre. This is no thinly designed stalker drama constructed almost entirely of stares (a la Twilight,) instead The Lost Souls of Gingerbread Lane gives us a well-rounded, quirky lead, Lennon Moore, who prior to the novel suffers the tragedy of his true love, Julia’s, death. The novel begins with Lennon being laid off from his job. The story of his descent into the supernatural is triggered by Lennon’s coping with his losses and flows naturally from these events, making this book a really great read.I really enjoyed how Lennon’s ability to use his video app to record and communicate with the dead is revealed in the book. The two spirits he first communicates with are thoroughly ordinary souls, and Lennon’s ability to record their stories is both touching and fascinating. Soon the spirits are introducing Lennon to others of their kind, and Lennon finds himself the only one with the knowledge of a murder. I don’t want to give away how the rest of the book unfolds, but the twists and turns of the plot were quite satisfying, and I found on the edge of my seat trying to find out what happened next. In short, another great read from Dennis Butler!