Latest Book Review: Indian Summer, by reviewer badlucksunshine

Five Stars out of Five *****

"Any reader(s) familiar with Redux's prior novels will be taken aback by Indian Summer. Instead of his brilliant approach in reinventing classic "monsters", this piece is a fictional memoir of the human experience in all of its tragedy and beauty with its own monsters. It is not devoid of horrors and atrocities, but these are true-to-life experiences rather than supernatural. Eddie, the 9 yr old boy who is the focal point, endures through his innocence being stolen from him via a series of events that are NOT for the squeamish. But again, the emotions, reactions, and circumstances are all very real. Redux captures the viewpoint of a child with eerie precision and actually returns the reader to that state of mind. There is a spectrum in Indian Summer of both pain and redemption that has not been successfully brought about by most authors. As a fan of Redux's other works, I didn't expect such a blunt and direct story lacking in his signature dark humor, which is another aspect that makes this that much more unique. I'll make no comparisons to other writers or books, but whatever elements you may be familiar with have been reinterpreted. If you can handle a dark depiction of reality, you have no excuse to not read Indian Summer."

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