I started listening a couple of days ago and quickly fell into the pattern that grabs me when listening to an exceptionally entertaining audio book. As I often do with books I want to read, but haven’t quite found the wherewithal or energy to crack the spine, I bought it and added it to my queue. So, 14 was gathering dust on the shelf when Audible offered it up as a daily deal. 😉Īnyway, I’m reviewing a book, one I almost didn’t read.

I don’t believe in ghosts or magic and I’m not even sure ESP is a thing, but I can comfortably fit the X-Men into my world view and I spent a lot of time opening the doors of perception in my twenties. Now, I don’t follow every prophesy of apocalyptic doom, but hidden dimensions? Oh, they’re there and I’ve believed in them since I was eight years old and digging in my neighbour’s back yard for fossils after seeing Journey to the Center of the Earth. And his thoughts on just who does the hiding. His discomfort in how and why these other dimensions and lost places manage to stay hidden. Not a new concept, and in the afterword for 14, Clines talks about how this book in particular has been knocking around in his head since he saw The Lost World at age eight. Why? Because I more clearly see what it is about Clines’ work that pulls me in so quickly and keeps me reading long after my bedtime.

Looking back after having read 14, I like it better. And I really liked the hero aspect, but at the time of reading, I didn’t love the book. Not as much as Clines’ other stuff, but it had all the good parts-relatable characters and deep story lines. I bought it, listened to it and quite liked it. It looked like a horror novel and I don’t really read horror.Įx-Heroes was an Audible Daily Deal. Although the cover had first caught my attention, it also sort of put me off. 14 continued to languish on my TBR bookcase, largely ignored. Snapped it up, read it, loved it, reviewed it. They fairly leapt off the page and though the stories were short, there was an incredible depth to them, as if I was reading about people I knew, or had known.Įarlier this year I was offered a copy of The Fold to read for review. I’d liked Clines’ take on zombies and had enjoyed his characters. I found a copy at the library sale a couple of years ago, shortly after I read The Junkie Quatrain. Mysteries of the ages! Apocalypses! Steampunk doomsday devices! Tentacles!ġ4 is definitely my favourite of Peter Clines’s books-and I almost didn’t read it.

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