A Reading Machine

An okay horror tale with a dash of dark fantasy. The Catcher’s Trap starts brilliantly. The reader is instantly thrown into the dark pulsing heaving nightclub scene where bodies thrash against each other, conversations are lost to deafening music and exit doors lay at the end of a turbulent maze of sweat. It’s familiar and has been used to great effect in countless movies and books and in this case is written fantastically as I felt as lost as the protagonist Andres. My heart

Rise by Brian Guthrie Our story takes place in a world formed of scattered landmasses or ‘Shells’ that that are kept in gravitational rotation around the earth’s core by an ancient computer known as the Network. Protected from the unforgiving darkness of space by a water shield also supplied by the Network it’s as though the earth has become a mini cluster of planets, so when this omnipotent being recognises her own failing reasoning she tasks a seemingly ordinary man, but a

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