Genre: Supernatural Thriller
Description:
“After an unexpected turn flushes his chosen career down the toilet,
Dex Sanders is struggling to make ends meet as a used car salesman. Despite the
drudgery of the job, he manages to put on a brave face for his wife, Reagan,
and their two boys, until the day an unsettling encounter with a stranger
coincides with a mysterious package appearing on their doorstep.
Later that night, Dex and his family are abducted by a group of armed
men and taken to an underground bunker, where Dex is tortured. When Dex can’t
answer any of their odd questions, the strangers conclude they’ve nabbed the
wrong guy, and the entire family is marked for execution.
With the clock ticking, Dex must free his family and retrieve the
strange box that seems to hold the answers. But doing so means running from
relentless killers, uncovering the truth behind an evil as old as time, and
stopping a supernatural power that threatens the entire world.”
Author:
“When Brett McKay is not conjuring demons and bloodthirsty psychopaths
to put on paper, he sells landscaping. He loves all types of music, but hard
rock and heavy metal fuel him the most. He enjoys the outdoors, spending time
with friends and family, and curling up in front of a good movie with his wife
and a bucket of popcorn.
Brett lives in Utah with his wife and two sons. Fall is his favorite
time of year because he gets to decorate his house for Halloween much too early
for his neighbors.”
Appraisal:
This book’s forward explains that the book was first available on
Amazon’s Vella platform which consists of serialized novels with an episode
getting released each week over an extended period of time. Each episode would
include a brief author’s note which, depending on the note, tends to do one or
sometimes both of two things, at least in this author’s case. One thing it can
do is give a glimpse into the process of writing a novel with comments on what prompted
a particular characteristic of a person in the novel, the inspiration for a
strange turn the story takes, or why the author included a particular event in
the novel. These notes also often provide a bit of foreshadowing, giving a bit
of a clue as to where the story is headed. Since I understood the full history
of why and how these notes were there, I liked them and felt they added to the
story. (Without that knowledge, I suspect they would have felt quite strange.)
The story itself kept me engrossed and involved in trying to figure
out what was going to happen. The story world is pretty much a place that felt
like an average town in the US in contemporary times with some strange things
happening that don’t have a logical explanation for either the reader or Dex,
the protagonist. Over time the explanation comes out, but the adventure the
reader experiences with Dex as he, his family, and some others try to work
through the complications caused by these strange happenings kept me engrossed
to the very end.
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FYI:
Some adult language.
Format/Typo
Issues:
No significant issues.
Rating: ****
Four Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate word count: 55-60,000 words
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