Review: DENSELY PACKED MYSTERY THRILLER
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 19, 2013
Review by Joseph M Chiron author of TAGGED: THE APOCALYPSE.Masterfully written with a deep love for language and poetic turn of phrase at first I thought SOLSTICE by Damian Stevenson was literary fiction. We meet the protagonist Dana as she is being released from a week long inpatient psychiatric stay. She and her boyfriend Tyler immediately go on a trip to see Dana’s sister at the Rainbow Collective, a communal style living arrangement where her sister is now married to Clive the very handsome and charismatic leader. Tyler disappears as in missing person. All is not what it seems at the happy Rainbow Collective or is it Dana’s fragile emotional/ mental state and the many anti-depressant pills she takes daily?From the very beginning Damian Stevenson is ratcheting up the tension with many unanswered questions, red herrings, leads, clues and dead ends. Add copious layers of lies, deception, betrayal and head spinning twists and turns. What lies beneath will surprise you and maybe even shock you.Solstice is a great story told very skillfully. I give it my highest recommendation.