Review: Confused...but in a good way
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 4, 2013
I read Seb Kirby's first novel "Take No More" so when I saw this book, I thought the word "Double" in the title was a clever way of hinting at the book's premise.  Boy, was I right.  And wrong!Double Bind is a new-agey Invasion of the Bodysnatchers with a perfectly scientific explanation.  Maybe.  The story is told in the first-person present, second-person present and past all at the same time.  Raymond Bridges sees a man on the street that looks just like him.  Dresses just like him.  Same mannerisms, voice, profesion as him.  Raymond doesn't know if he is himself or, if the other guy is him, who is he?  You probably shouldn't read this book tired.  When you reach the end of this book, you will feel like...  You know the doomsayers that stand on a corner with a sandwich board shouting "the end is near?"  The next time you see one of those guys, you might well wonder if he's crazy or if he knows something the rest of us don't.I haven't read a book quite like this before (and I've read a lot of books) but it's excellent.  There's A LOT going on with the story but once you get the flow of it and keep the happenings in order, the story moves at a good pace and  is never boring.Double Bind, as a second effort, is better than the first.  No sophomore jinx here!