Royden Poole is having a very bad day. Follow the Hole Behind Midnight into a world of oracles and monsters, kings and usurpers ... follow it into the 25th Hour. A darkly comic postmodern urban fantasy crime/mystery noir/pulp tale-of-suspense-and-magic-and-cursing, this is a story of the 25th Hour for mature audiences only.
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By farewell2kings
May 21, 2011
I must be fair and inform you that I am friends with the author, but I bought his book on Lulu to support his efforts and I will be fair with my review. This book is about as far away from mainstream as you can get. I called it the Anti-Harry Potter, but that doesn't even begin to do it justice. Read it for the shock value. Read it for the zinging one liners. Read it for the fascinating setting--a world familiar yet horrifying. The novel moves at a break neck speed, fueled by pornographic images, the longing for cigarettes and vodka fueled strippers and a desperate need to be accepted and/or save the United States from demons. Giving more details would be giving out spoilers and one should not spoil the fun that is this novel. As a fan of conventional fantasy, hard core science fiction, alternate history novels and historically based stories, I wasn't sure what to make of this book. I'm still not sure. After reading it, I'm sure I've damaged my psyche' somehow and I will never, ever,... More > ever use the term goatboy again. Clinton Boomer's imagination and the ability to create a mood is incredible. The novel leaves many literary conventions behind...many loops are left open, many issues unresolved, but finishing it was like finishing a sprint....a sprint where your pursuer wants to rape you and you cross the finish line, winded, victorious, with a leather clad stripper handing you a cold beer at the end and smacking you on the ass. You feel slightly violated, but also slightly vindicated. I want Royden Poole to take over Hogwarts. That's all I can say.< Less
