Glimpse: A Novel
Mar 2018 · St. Martin's Press
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"A waking dream, at once powerful and subtly sinister." —Clive Barker, New York Times bestselling author
A chilling thriller that explores what happens when reality and nightmares converge, and how far one will go to protect the innocent when their own brain is a threat.
From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry comes a novel that puts a bold new spin on the supernatural thriller.
Rain Thomas is a mess. Seven years an addict and three difficult years clean. Racked by guilt for the baby she gave up for adoption when she was sixteen. Still grieving for the boy’s father who died in Iraq. Alone, discarded by her family, with only the damaged members of her narcotics anonymous meetings as friends. Them, and the voices in her head.
One morning, on the way to a much-needed job interview, she borrows reading glasses to review her resume. There is a small crack in one lens and through that damaged slice of glass she sees a young boy go running down the aisle of the subway train. Is he screaming with laughter or just screaming? When she tries to find the boy, he’s gone and no one has seen him.
The day spins out of control. Rain loses whole chunks of time. She has no idea where her days went. The voices she hears are telling her horrible things. And even stranger things are happening. Unsure whether she is going insane, Rain sets out to find answers to long buried questions about an earlier life she has avoided for years—in what may be the most dangerous collision of all, that between reality and nightmare.
How far will one person go to save someone they love?
Read on at your own peril...
A chilling thriller that explores what happens when reality and nightmares converge, and how far one will go to protect the innocent when their own brain is a threat.
From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry comes a novel that puts a bold new spin on the supernatural thriller.
Rain Thomas is a mess. Seven years an addict and three difficult years clean. Racked by guilt for the baby she gave up for adoption when she was sixteen. Still grieving for the boy’s father who died in Iraq. Alone, discarded by her family, with only the damaged members of her narcotics anonymous meetings as friends. Them, and the voices in her head.
One morning, on the way to a much-needed job interview, she borrows reading glasses to review her resume. There is a small crack in one lens and through that damaged slice of glass she sees a young boy go running down the aisle of the subway train. Is he screaming with laughter or just screaming? When she tries to find the boy, he’s gone and no one has seen him.
The day spins out of control. Rain loses whole chunks of time. She has no idea where her days went. The voices she hears are telling her horrible things. And even stranger things are happening. Unsure whether she is going insane, Rain sets out to find answers to long buried questions about an earlier life she has avoided for years—in what may be the most dangerous collision of all, that between reality and nightmare.
How far will one person go to save someone they love?
Read on at your own peril...
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11 April 2018
I've read most if not all novels by Jonathon Maberry, and have long been a huge fan. I wanted to love this book, I really did, but I ended up just feeling a big "meh" about it. I feel like he was trying to harken back to his Ghost Road Blues roots, but the supernatural elements here were just too logically twisted, opaque, and contradictory for me to really enjoy. I hate to say it, but you'd be better off reading any of his other works. I have great love for the Maberryverse and how everything ties together throughout and between his different series, but I was just disappointed with this work. I don't feel like I ever really got a grip on what was going on (I understood the plot, I just couldn't wrap my mind around how it truly worked), and what I fully grasped wasn't logically tight or sound. I'm sorry, Mr Maberry, but I just couldn't lose myself in this story the way I can in all the rest.
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About the author
JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times bestseller and multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Joe Ledger: Unstoppable, Nights of the Living Dead Anthology, Dogs of War, Kill Switch, Predator One, Code Zero, and more. His work for Marvel Comics includes The Punisher, Wolverine, DoomWar, Marvel Zombie Return and Black Panther. His Joe Ledger series has been optioned for television.
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