The same question remained unsolved: what truly happened at the river at 11pm on the 27th october, 2014?
Ad/PR/Patrocinado. Publication day review of In October by Charlotte Josephine. Many thanks to the author for this ARC.
In October is a strange and haunting story about a boy who was shot and a girl who was drowned, and a series of odd and disturbing events that seem to connect to this tragedy as ripples of water spreading out on the surface of a river.
John “Jay” Doe wakes up in the hospital as a teenager with no memories of anything that has happened in his life up until then, not even his own name. Every October for four years he returns to a specific river, hoping to find the answers to the mystery of his own life, or perhaps even locate the only thing he remembers, a girl with ebony-black hair and emerald-green eyes. And then, after four years, he finds a girl at the river. But she doesn’t look anything like he remembers, and before long he is entangled in a dark and deadly mystery that will change everything he thought he knew about reality, life and himself.
Told through different fonts and formatting that are both revealing and obscuring at the same time, In October blends horror, romance and speculative fiction with a plot that questions the very fabric of reality and challenges the characters, and the readers, to think outside the box, read between the lines and visualise a world that is both completely recognisable and utterly foreign at the same time.
If you want an easy read, this isn’t it. Demanding, complex and dazzling, this one is for readers who aren’t afraid of a novel that raises just as many questions as it provides answers, all wrapped in a tapestry of Eldritch horrors, burning passions, devastating desires and mind-bending plot twists, seen through the eyes, and hearts, of intense, vulnerable young adults caught in the fervent fires of their own feelings, convictions and fragilities.
Horror – Speculative fiction
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