This week’s choice is…
Glimpse by
Jonathan Maberry (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · 148 Ratings · 53 Reviews
BOOK BEGINNINGS
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The page on the left is actually black!
FRIDAY56 (Instagram Post)
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Just in case you can’t see beyond the first photo, here’s the Friday 56 sentence below:
MY FIRST THOUGHTS
I was very lucky to be sent a copy of this book by the publisher, and I am thoroughly enjoying it. I must admit I have never read Jonathan Maberry before and as I understand this, Gimpse is a very different book to his others. So I am probably one of the few coming into this book with no idea of Maberry’s previous style and without expectations. In short, I LOVE it! Glimpse has a got a strong supernatural theme, with horror elements, very much like Stephen King and Dean Koontz’ work. There’s also a huge amount of mystery surrounding the strange Doctor Nine and what is behind his motivation as the book’s evil baddie. It’s one of those books I can’t wait to pick up and continue reading…
HERE’S THE BLURB FROM GOODREADS
Rain is a young woman trying to rebuild herself after years of drug addiction and abuse. Ten years ago, at age sixteen, she gave up her baby after the father, her first love, dies in Iraq. Now, three years clean and on the way to a job interview, Rain borrows a pair of reading glasses from an old lady on a Brooklyn train. The lenses are cracked and through the crack she catches a glimpse of a little boy running and screaming. The boy looks so much like Rain’s dead lover. Like their son must look now.
Rain realizes that the glasses give her quick glimpses of her lost son, Dylan, who needs her to find him. Dylan is important to our damaged, hopeless world. But he’s in terrible trouble because evil creatures – the Shadow People – are trying to corrupt and destroy him. If Dylan dies, then hope dies.
But how does a recovering junkie fight supernatural monsters? And how far will one woman go to save her lost son?
Have you read this? Would you like to?
I can’t wait to visit your blogs to find out.
Have a great weekend, may your books be with you!
Luv Sassy X
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This sounds really good 🙂 added to my TBR – my Friday 56 link is https://myendlessshelf.weebly.com/home/the-friday-56-the-beasts-heart-by-leife-shallcross I’d love for you to stop by!
Fabulous!!! I’m SO PLEASED ! LOL Hope you love it! 🙂
Intriguing! I like the beginning especially. The way it’s broken up makes for an interesting pacing.
It does! I’m finding it a fast read, too.
Ooh, now I’m very curious…and I love the idea of those glasses…and the character’s name (Rain). LOL
Here’s mine: “THE NEW NEIGHBORS”
Yes! I thought of you actually when I saw her name. 🙂
This sounds so very good. Love the writing!! Happy weekend!
Thanks, Freda! Hope you are having a good weekend, too!
Interesting premise. I’m curious about this one.
That’s great news, Catherine!!
Whoa! You had me at the opening! And I love it when a book has unusual pages in it too. This sounds like a good one for me.
My Friday 56 from Shadowfall
Absolutely! I knew you’d like this one!
Glad you’re enjoying your new read.
Thanks Nicki!
I have liked this author’s other books and I think I’ll have to try this one as well.
Lauren @ Always Me