Wayne has a really, really bad day. Not
only was he just recently discharged from jail, after been in for three years, the
sand (“blackouts”) is returning with a vengeance, he’s in more trouble than ever
before, and to top the day off? He’s is sitting in his old precinct – but on
the “other” side, as a broken man, a man who have lost everything, and can’t
remember what he has been doing, all he knows is that his daughter and her son are
missing, and he needs to get out of the precinct to help find them. The only
way out is to remember what really
happened, and the one who can help Wayne with that is Elaine. But what happens
when the door is slowly and painfully being opened for his past? Does he truly
want to remember?
Shadow of the World concentrates on Wayne
and his blackouts (or Sand as he calls it), his daughter and grandson that went
missing, his battle to reach them in time to save them from a sick killer. All
he has to do is remember what happened during the day.
There are a lot of back and forth in this
book. The focus point, the starter point, is in the room, where Wayne is sitting
cuffed to the table/chair, talking to Elaine and Sam who is standing quietly in
the corner. This is our anchor. And then we’re off, following Wayne through his
day with everything weird happening, how he discovers that he can in a way
control the Sand – to smallish degree, his hunt through town and along the way,
more and more is being revealed about Wayne, about his past. The more he
remembers, the more we’ll know. I like this. Noting is handed to you, but it is
being unwrapped slowly, packed into action, drama and urgency.
I was caught up in this tale. I liked the “time-jump”,
to get little bits revealed about Wayne’s day along the way, and still when I
got to the end, everything wasn’t delivered on a silver platter. The journey
through the book was catching, I didn’t want to put it down, and when I was
done reading, all I wanted to do was to get the next and continue. I was so
caught up in the story, and everything leading up to the end was amazingly
written – I WANT to know what happens next!
If you haven’t read anything by Gregory
Carrico before, I’ll definitely recommend Shadow of the World. I know I will
look into some of his other books as well.
In this gritty “Dark Knight” meets “The
Wire” superhero series, an ex-con tries to overcome his blackouts and memory
loss with the help of his prison psychiatrist. Along with his returning
memories, he finds evidence that his daughter and grandson are in grave danger
from a brutal killer with a grudge. But he also discovers a side to his
personality that only comes out during his blackouts: a superhero with
telepathic powers. As he finds himself in a complex world of betrayal,
dangerous alien biotechnology, and a dimensional rift to a world of waking
nightmares, can he bring together the fragments of his broken mind in time to
save his family, or is everything he thinks he knows just another figment of a
deluded killer’s imagination?
About the author:
Gregory Carrico is a former dental practice
management consultant and software trainer. Abandoning his dream of working the
daily grind until death, he was forced into the thankless life of a fiction
writer. Now an Amazon.com Best Selling horror and science fiction writer, as
well as a 2013 HFA Author of the Year Finalist, he finds a small degree of
succor in crafting despicable bad guys and then tricking readers into caring
about them.
When not creating new worlds and plotting
their destruction, he advocates for adopting rescue dogs, and politely urges
slower drivers to get out of the passing lane.
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