This is sooo overdue, it's not even funny! Anyway, I wanted to pimp Michael Jasper's (
michaeljasper) newest novel, A Gathering of Doorways. :)
Mike let me read it a few months before the novel came out, and I read the entire thing in a weekend. I really like Carl Hays' description of A Gathering of Doorways in his Booklist review: "...imaginative rendering of middle-class angst with the familiar supernatural ingredients of a 1980s-era horror novel."
Even though vampires and werewolves are great, the horror aspect in A Gathering of Doorways is within all the normal things surrounding the Anderson family, which makes the novel, and the horror, so much more real and relatable. You don't simply get lost in the forest--it pretty much takes you!
Each chapter is from the point-of-view of Gil, or his wife, Melissa, or their son, Noah, and I absolutely loved Mike's ability to differentiate the three voices. Noah's my favorite!
Due to the stillbirth of the Andersons' second child, the family is unraveling, and not only have they become mentally separated, but when Noah wanders off, they're physically separated, too. However, together is the only way the family will be able to overcome the psychedelic Undercity, which, it turns out, governs all the creepy stuff that's been going on.
Amazing writing, a captivating story, believable characters, and things that go bump in the night... and day. What more could you want?
Mike let me read it a few months before the novel came out, and I read the entire thing in a weekend. I really like Carl Hays' description of A Gathering of Doorways in his Booklist review: "...imaginative rendering of middle-class angst with the familiar supernatural ingredients of a 1980s-era horror novel."
Even though vampires and werewolves are great, the horror aspect in A Gathering of Doorways is within all the normal things surrounding the Anderson family, which makes the novel, and the horror, so much more real and relatable. You don't simply get lost in the forest--it pretty much takes you!
Each chapter is from the point-of-view of Gil, or his wife, Melissa, or their son, Noah, and I absolutely loved Mike's ability to differentiate the three voices. Noah's my favorite!
Due to the stillbirth of the Andersons' second child, the family is unraveling, and not only have they become mentally separated, but when Noah wanders off, they're physically separated, too. However, together is the only way the family will be able to overcome the psychedelic Undercity, which, it turns out, governs all the creepy stuff that's been going on.
Amazing writing, a captivating story, believable characters, and things that go bump in the night... and day. What more could you want?
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