Secrets And Demons

A Supernatural Tale By River Wolf

Jones is fundamentally a reject: he is not popular in the community as he wasn’t in school, he is unable to create significant interactions with his peers, even less if they are girls, he listens to dark metal music and all its sub-genres that no-one besides him seems to know of or care for. He has a menial job at the local recycling depot, lives in a social housing estate that offers shelters to lowlives and mentally challenged people. There is nothing about him that can possibly attract people.
One night, after purchasing an old stereo at his favourite second-hand shop, he finds a weird radio show, that seems to be broadcasting murders from the future. It can’t be real, right? How can anyone know what will happen in the next few hours, including names, events and locations, and broadcasting it on radio? But curiosity can be a powerful motivation and Jones decides to go to the place he heard of on the radio, to find himself in the right place at the right time and prevent a killing. Here starts Jones’ journey into his supernatural psychic power, which will end with an explosive event and a very tight epilogue.

We are not completely convinced by this book, especially the beginning: Jones is a nice and relatable character, but there is a very big chunk that only describes what a loser he is. After the third chapter, this only becomes repetitive and doesn’t add much to the story. The same goes for the long diversion on music and genres and sub-genres and names of bands that might be real or fictional. Loved the idea, though: it embodies the genre perfectly and has great potential – the voice that Jones hears on the radio belonging to an old lady who is in a hospice in a vegetative state, and owned the power before him – but it’s not fully developed in its current state.

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