This is a novella and an exploration into the mind's psyche.
Amanda wakes up with a hectic hangover. Where's her
boyfriend Patrick when she needs him? The memories start flooding back of the
fight they had because she wanted to spend their date time with her friends.
Guess he won't be there to pick her up then. As she rejoins the land of the
living with a splitting headache, she knows she needs to get to class. But who
is this new person that claims to be her roommate? Why is she enrolled in
History when she knows she never registered for the class? Who is Nick, why is
he protecting her from the being trying to get into the classroom and for
heaven's sake - why is the teacher dressed like Aristotle? Can someone please
stop the chain of thought creating laws of association mantras that keep
getting thrown at her?
The book was both hit and miss for me. I fully understand
where the author was coming from and what he was trying to portray, but in
trying to create the laws of association some serious stretches of
relationships were made here. Being a novella, not a lot of time could be spent
in fleshing out characters or creating links in Amanda's chain which left an
incomplete feeling. I think that the author had a clear idea of how the titbits
of info would tie together but as a reader I was confused with the jumping back
and forth between situations and alluding to incidents about to happen that
don't get explained. Amanda was a piece of work - I could quite happily have
thrown something very heavy at her. Good editing was a relief during the read.
An interesting piece of work but not strong enough as a
solid story for me.
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