Review: This author has an amazing imagination...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 21, 2013
This novella can only be described as excellent, and 'page-turner' is an understatement (much as I loathe the usual cliches). The story unfolds with interesting pre-amble at a normal pace then quickly takes off like an Olympic runner at the sound of the starter pistol.It builds on the foundation that Lizzie Greene is an ordinary young woman, in a good profession, happily married and delightfully close to her husband, and they are expecting their first child - a nice rosy life without the mush.Then tragedy strikes, but nothing's as cut and dried as it seems. On a typically ordinary day, Lizzie receives a phone call from her husband on his way home from work, just letting her know when he'll be home. What she doesn't know, until police officers turn up at her door, is that he'd been killed an hour before. We, the readers, know she got the call, but no one else believes her. And the slippery slope for her takes her down a helter-skelter of raw grief and mixed emotions, with her mental health firmly brought into question.(Think along similar lines to the movie 'Premonition' starring Sandra Bullock).The story then takes us through the twists and turns of extraodinary thought-processes about this life and a possible paralel life as Lizzie tries to maintain her sanity as family and friends despair, and outside authorities try to tear apart her theories. She develops a faith she never had before, convinced she's not going crazy, as she remains rational enough to question everything. The trouble is, no one will listen to her logic. And so we're swept along by the author's imagination and excellent prose in a story that will keep you guessing even up until the most unlikely and unexpected conclusion. I absolutely loved it!To sum up, this was an exceptional read that I read in one sitting (Cliche Alert, honestly I couldn't put it down). I might actually go back and read it again. It was highly intriguing, thought-provoking, and fully deserving of my five-star rating.C.M. Donaldson is the author of sci-thri novelThe AL-EX Project (ALternative EXistence) Testing the limits of dream control