Reviewed by: Sooz
Genre: Science Fiction
Approximate word count: 20,000-25,000 words
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Author:
Ayami
Tyndall is a California native who is an avid reader. He’s authored several
books many of which look at how technology has changed our lives. You can learn
more about Ayami and his works at his website.
Description:
Dylan Quale
receives a series of texts and phone calls predicting the immediate future. It
turns out that probabilities are changing, and narrowing to one certain
outcome, and Dylan is the one to fix it.
Appraisal:
Sometime
coincidences can turn out to be something a little bigger – that’s what Dylan
Quale realizes when he has received a series of strange, yet prophetic phone
calls. Something is wrong in the world and options for people are narrowing,
meaning their choices will lead to one conclusion, and it’s usually not a good
one.
Dylan is
apparently the only who could fix them although he is a bit reluctant to try.
The short story is captivating to start. Everything the mysterious text
messages and phone calls to Dylan have turned true, so it quickly lent to
immediate questions: Who is sending these? Why is this happening? How could
Dylan save them?
However, in
the middle the book became a bit confusing and just a little absurd. The
narrowed choices led to apocalyptic-type of events: a plane falling on a house;
missing family members returning; everyone seeming to be related.
The idea of
Sand Castle still intrigues me. I
think this book falls into a case of actually being too short. I would have
liked to have more pages explaining some of peculiarities and ensuring I
understood what was going on because I stopped “getting it.”
Instead, I
finished with confusion and doubt.
Format/Typo Issues:
No major
issues
Rating: ***Three stars
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