written by Gary
A. Braunbeck
published by Leisure
Books
ISBN-10: 0843955775
ISBN-13: 978-0843955774
reviewed by Adam Armstrong
12.28.08
A
fresh new idea.
Gil Stewart witnesses
a strange accident on the highway. He tries to help an old man who was hit by a
car. The old man dies, but before he does he gives Gil a message about the
Keepers. Gil gets home to find out that he mentally handicapped nephew, of whom
he is the parental guardian, is missing. Gil has to go back through memories from
when he was nine up to the time something happened that has since messed up his
thoughts for life. In the present something is surrounding him. Something is
coming to collect him as he tries to desperately remember the key to
everything.
Take away the monsters,
the scary, and the strange things in this book and you are still left with well
written and thought-provoking book. For a little while there I thought there
was a Chandleresque, Owen Taylor plot hole in the
book but it was resolved and made me do quite a bit of rereading due to my own
impatience. Then again, Braunbeck might have intended
this. I think being a pet lover goes a long way into how much you’ll like this
book or not.
Simply put, buy it and
read it in one sitting if you can.
5 out of 5