Rhiannon
A most Unreliable Narrator who may be haunted or may be losing his mind, or both. Paranoia, guilt, and a desperate need to keep everyone at arms length have developed into unhealthy obsessions, OCD and avoidant behaviour for Mike O’Brien as he’s drawn back to Seattle after some 15 years by a former close friend who has a can’t miss opportunity to direct a play that he has written.
Ghosts, hauntings, nightmares and tragic accidents plague the small troupe of actors that has gathered for this production. Mike isn’t sure if he’s the culprit of the incidents, if he’s hallucinating everything, or if he has acquired a malevolent ghost who is trying to sabotage his mind and his very life.
Somehow it all relates back to a horrific secret that he has kept well and truly hidden for some time, and as his life falls apart, he may not survive the final act. Cohn effectively and creepily conveys the unstable state of mind of the narrator while building a haunting mystery, but there's a lot going on here for this little novel and I wanted more from the ending which ended a little too abruptly and messily for me.
Originally posted at www.amazon.ca.
A most Unreliable Narrator who may be haunted or may be losing his mind, or both. Paranoia, guilt, and a desperate need to keep everyone at arms length have developed into unhealthy obsessions, OCD and avoidant behaviour for Mike O’Brien as he’s drawn back to Seattle after some 15 years by a former close friend who has a can’t miss opportunity to direct a play that he has written.
Ghosts, hauntings, nightmares and tragic accidents plague the small troupe of actors that has gathered for this production. Mike isn’t sure if he’s the culprit of the incidents, if he’s hallucinating everything, or if he has acquired a malevolent ghost who is trying to sabotage his mind and his very life.
Somehow it all relates back to a horrific secret that he has kept well and truly hidden for some time, and as his life falls apart, he may not survive the final act. Cohn effectively and creepily conveys the unstable state of mind of the narrator while building a haunting mystery, but there's a lot going on here for this little novel and I wanted more from the ending which ended a little too abruptly and messily for me.
Originally posted at www.amazon.ca.