Where / Kit Reed

Where 

by Kit Reed

horror

copyright 2015

read in june 2019

rated 6/10: read to pass the time

warning: the front cover claims that this book is "a novel". i take that as a warning, there may not be a story inside. this time it is not quite so bad... not quite.

a hundred people disappear, then there is a lot of psychological stress. both amongst those who disappear and those who remain.

 spoiler alert: so what happened? we never find out.

one man seems to know more than anyone else, he doesn't tell. questions are asked, answers are avoided. it's a twitch of the mystical curtain, is the best we get. absolute rubbish.

and who is the person who seems to be immortal? no explanation.

i found the book in the science fiction shelves. there is no science. does the mystical curtain make it fantasy? possibly. i've decided to label it as horror. horror is often based on fantasy elements but depends on the reader being scared by the situation. also, horror denies the need for explanation... it just is.

perhaps this book is a psychological thriller? as that, it's quite good. put people under stress and they go crazy. explicably crazy, in many cases. unfortunately the crazy often involves a lot of refusal to tell anyone -- including the reader -- what they are doing.

and then the book ends... no precedent, no logic, no follow-up. it just ends.

the book is easy enough to read. harder to enjoy, difficult to take seriously. unless you see it as pure psychological exploration. in which case, read to pass the time.

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