REVIEWED BY TAYLOR
TITLE: Woke Up in a Strange Place
AUTHOR: Eric Arvin
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 240 Pages
BLURB:
Joe wakes up in a barley field with no clothes, no memories, and no idea how he got there. Before he knows it, he’s off on the last great journey of his life. With his soul guide Baker and a charge to have courage from a mysterious, alluring, and somehow familiar Stranger, Joe sets off through a fantastical changing landscape to confront his past.
The quest is not without challenges. Joe’s past is not always an easy thing to relive, but if he wants to find peace—and reunite with the Stranger he is so strongly drawn to—he must continue on until the end, no matter how tempted he is to stop along the way.
REVIEW:
I was thinking about this book the other day, and I realized how many people have not read this. This book is flat out amazing. Its not your standard m/m romance, but it is a love story. Its a love story about the main character’s life and who and what has been a part of it. You never know what parts of your life will remain, what your brain or heart will hold on to. Some things might be painful and some might be joyous. Some people will always stay in your heart just a bit away, but situations surrounding them are so painful that you fight to push it away. Some aspects of your life seem so insignificant at the time, but years later you remember some blip of them. All of it somehow makes up your life and the love you’ve shared with people.
Joe wakes up one day with no memories stumbling through seemingly random at times moments or people that have been apart of him. He has a guide that leads him along the way, and as a reader you just have to go with it because you are just as lost and confused as he is. Trust me, its a great kind of confusion. Nothing is predictable, and while sad at times this book couldn’t, shouldn’t have ended any other way. This book is dreamlike,beautiful, important. I ugly-faced cried when it was over.
I highly, highly recommend you read now. One of those special, unique, wonderful pieces of work
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Aw, nice review Tay. And intriguing.