This could have been an interesting novel: a mystery where the detective needs to pursue an antagonist through the dreams of a sleeping city. This is not a very interesting novel. It's overcomplicated, laden with unnecessary twists and turns and layers, redolent with the sense the author isn't entirely clear on the what is what in the novel he's writing. Maybe if the author had more of a sense of how mystery novels worked, or was more willing to engage (not necessarily play by) those rules or expectations. I'm sure Berry wanted to say something about dreams and freedom and freewill and control, but he really doesn't seem here to have had the requisite skill to do what he wants to do.
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Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
This is labeled as an epistolary novel, but that's not entirely right. There are entries that could not possibly have been written, fr...
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I read this book like thirty years ago (ack!) when I was in college, and I remembered liking it, and when my wife picked it as a classic-i...
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The cover text calls this something like "one of the most important novels" blah blah blah. It's not a novel, it's a disc...
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Not a novel, which ... well ... some of the events described in the book would stretch credulity in fiction. It's a book about the lie...
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