Title: Chapter 1: Chapter 1
I'm actually speechless. The seamless merging of the peaceful freedom-refuge with terror and entrapment and the seamless merging of the terror with reality, the way the reader is allowed to SEE everything that has happened and everything that Parker believes is happening, some that she doesn't undersatnd and is confused by, and then that allows us to also see what is actually really happening while she struggles to free herself of webbing.. it is powerful. It's really moving for me. You do really take me there, sink me into the scene.Her brain has been trying to process events, and in fear she sought her mother's refuge, escaped into her mind. There are things that her brain isn't processing. I think that's part of the refuge. The 'strange and violent hammerring" is Jarod "thrusting" Lyle's face into the floor three times.. this does follow Asphyxia perfectly. The pressure in her chest and the lips is jarod performing CPR on her. The sirens, the throat. She was intubated. She escaped all of that trauma by finding her mother but she couldn't run far enough. It's that feeling that something is wrong and you keep running until you can't run anymore. You transported me, took my hand and yanked me into that world. How are you able to do that? Not even Stephen King has done that. Not many authors can do that. This is all plausible, too. It's scarily plausible. You're a hell of an author, Mirage. My sights are set on the next installments. Please. Kudos and Bravos!
Reviewer: James Signed
Date: 02/02/24