REVIEWED: LITTLE LOST BOY by T.M. Wright
LITTLE LOST BOY by T.M. Wright / Uninvited Books (May 2011, reprint) /235 pp. / Trade Paperback and eBook
When his six-year-old son vanishes, Miles Gale is suspected of having committed an unthinkable crime. He alone knows that the truth is even more unthinkable: his son has been taken by a creature out of time, a creature out of nightmare. The boy’s mother has returned to claim him … and Miles will have to go through hell to get him back.
Who knows, I might have never read T.M. Wright if I hadn’t already loved two other Uninvited books (Willy and Gardens of Night, both of which made my top five books for 2011.) And it would have been a shame because I love books like this: Where the horrors are many, both inside our hearts and outside our bodies… Where the surreal otherness mingles and breeds with the commonplace.
The Good: Great pacing, cool structure, vivid imagery, intense on several levels, stimulating and original. The characters were fantastic but the father felt a little flat in contrast to everybody else, especially CJ, which is the only reason I rated it four instead of five stars on Goodreads.
The Bad: This isn’t a novel that will fare well with lazy readers who want everything spelled out for them. But that’s their loss. Lazy people don’t deserve treasure.
I’m looking forward to a lot of T.M. Wright’s other work now. I like digging for treasure and I like being rewarded.
Highly recommended.
-Lee Thompson
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