“In the dead of night, beside a fading fire deep in the cold woods, a solitary man sits on a magician’s old theatrical trunk…planning the hideous death of Wilson Kemp. The trunk is battered and cracked, its garish paint peeling, but its contents are very special—Wilson Kemp’s worst fear, come back to haunt him.
Kemp thought he could escape his past. As time went by he actually began to hope he could leave the nightmares behind him. But he is about to discover that some nightmares have no end and no escape. It’s taken years of patient, inexorable searching, but his past has finally caught up with him. And only his blood will satisfy it. “
Gord Rollo’s new book Strange Magic just may be his best yet.
What impressed my most about Strange Magic was the depth of his characters. This is Mr. Rollo’s third novel with Dorchester Publishing and he just keeps getting better. He tones back on the explicit gore and violence of his earlier books much to my satisfaction. He aims his considerable talent at his characters and storyline and in my opinion succeeds fabulously.
Wilson Kemp has lost everything, his family, his career and his dignity and self esteem to the bottom of a vodka bottle. Once a young promising escape artist performing to rave reviews with his best friend, Wilson now hides a dark secret from his past. Now the past has come back to take its revenge, putting even his estranged wife and daughter in danger.
Gord weaves a masterful tale of the horrors of alcoholism and its effects. Set against Wilson’s battle with the bottle is his wife and daughter whom he loves more than anything. But that love is not enough to stop him from drinking. Not until his past comes for his family can he put aside his addiction and save whom he loves.
And his past is out for blood, his blood. There are scares aplenty and a couple twists and turns you will not see coming.
An extremely well written book by Mr. Rollo and one you should definitely add to your list of must reads for 2010.
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