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Ghost Ocean (2009)

by S.M. Peters(Favorite Author)

3.3 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0451462696 (ISBN13: 9780451462695)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Roc

review 1: This novel is catastrophically under-rated. Perhaps the elements I found so powerful and mesmerizing are simply not for everyone. Like many other reviewers I had no clear idea what to expect, but I certainly didn't expect what I got. The reader is plunged into a semantic cloud, in which our attempts to draw boundaries around and define the constraints of reality are, well, meaningless. The narrative moves within a realm of total instability, rife with competing and inconsistent motivations, unknowable mysteries, unreliable memories, tarnished creatures of legend, and the hoary fog of instinct. I found the characters and the creatures utterly fascinating, often even poetic. I felt the same sort of high-grade mixture of emotional and existential tension I felt when Dun... moree Messiah finally clicked and I understood what I was reading. That's the level this novel is functioning on. If you are expecting something akin to a Kim Harrison novel, I suggest you look elsewhere. If you love thinking about how reality and relationships are created and destroyed through processes of symbolism, narrative, and memory- read this novel.
review 2: It seems that S.M. Peters was reading a lot of Lovecraft when he popped this one out because the influences are delightfully apparent in this book. Peters can quickly create a world that is so completely unreal, but the reader believes every word of it after the first five or six pages (give or take a few.) I really like that. The ending wasn’t for me really, but I was so in love with the characters that of course I wanted things to be different. less

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