Before we get to the review, we invite you to dive into the creepy waters of my novella, “My Dead Brother’s GPS Keeps Taking Me to the Wrong Address“, available on our Reading Corner page.
Days went by. Then a week. Then two. Max never called. He didn’t answer his cell phone.
We thought maybe it had something to do with Europe. But we couldn’t get ahold of Jane either. Then, instead of our calls going to voicemail, her phone number came back with a “not in service” message.
Mom and Dad freaked out.
At first the police didn’t want to get involved, since Max was supposed to be in Europe, but when we called Max’s boss, Karl, he told us that my brother hadn’t been into the office in weeks. Dad asked him about Europe.
“We don’t have a branch in Europe,” he said; “that doesn’t make any sense.”
I told my parents about our last FaceTime, and how he’d looked so bad, and how he’d cancelled my visit.
I think that’s when Mom and Dad realized something was truly, very wrong.
And it was great to see another glowing review of Oliver Bell! This time, Ian Colford (an author himself), tackles the plot summation challenge for The Seaboard Review.
The full review is here.
An excerpt:
It takes a special kind of imaginative superpower to create an entirely original universe, populate it with quirky, one-of-a-kind characters who seem to belong naturally to that world, and to do so both persuasively and entertainingly. Jake Swan accomplishes this feat in his madcap romp of a novel, Oliver Bell and the Infinite Multiverse[…]
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