Review: A glimpse of a strange world behind this one.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 23, 2013
This book is hard to describe. It is set in the same universe as Glynn James' more fantastic works, Diary Of The Displaced and The Broken Lands, but set in a quiet corner of that universe, as it were. Most of Reg Weldon's long life is perfectly mundane, if somewhat troubled. Only in a few isolated incidents does he see a glimpse of the wider universe and catch a hint of the epic struggles at the center of the Displaced novels.It is an interesting approach and one that, in my opinion, works very well. Granted, I am familiar with the Displaced novels, and so I knew what those hints and glimpses meant, but even so I felt Weldon's confusion and fear at being shown what he could not understand.It works well as both a solo novel and as part of the larger series, I think. Recommended.