Review: Another great new novel from Jester.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2013
I am absolutely wholeheartedly a fan of David Jester. From the comedy of the sex doll novel (Grastik) to the mufti-dimensional horror of Evergreen, this guy is one of the reasons I don't throw my Kindle against a stucco wall (California doesn't have bricks). There are still good writers out there telling stories that add just a little something new to the world.Like many other people in the US, mostly via drudgereport, the Internet got me reading British newspapers from time to time. That and the movie Snatch, gave me the background on the "traveller" communities in the UK, which is the setting of Evergreen. Outcasts that keep to themselves and move with a kind herd mentality, Jester captures the psychology of an isolated group of people beset with murder. The serial killer lurks in the background, and the behavior of the community rivals that of the serial killer, until the climatic end when the "evil" gets shifted to another community of "travellers" and murder, fire and rage all combine wonderfully to expose a doom which has been lurking for a generation.The story of the "other" is one which gets told a lot, and one which if not told right gets too obvious and boring real quick. Evergreen patiently takes the reader on a journey of human weakness and group psychosis, and in the best tradition of thrillers, murder of the kind which one doesn't wish to think humans capable.