Rating: Summary: Sleepeasy Yields Rewards...and Sunflowers Review: "Oh, Harry, my dolls weren't imaginary..."After her earthly life, the world Barbara Briggs has constructed is filled with quirky characters, a lovely lake and the ability to control it all...until her dead husband Harry shows up. His consciousness (and subconsciousness) upsets the precarious balance and, now, life and death in Silver Lake take on new meaning. How can one possibly die if one is already dead; how could one possibly be dead if one feels alive? These are just some of the questions in Sleepeasy. Through deliciously dark humor and intriguing characters, Wright allows us to explore these issues while deftly navigating us through both the corporeal world and one not quite so. If you like the challange of balancing several related plots and trust that Wright will creatively build the bridge between these worlds, you will absolutely love Sleepeasy. And you also may never again look at a field of sunflowers in quite the same way.
Rating: Summary: Sleepeasy Yields Rewards...and Sunflowers Review: "Oh, Harry, my dolls weren't imaginary..." After her earthly life, the world Barbara Briggs has constructed is filled with quirky characters, a lovely lake and the ability to control it all...until her dead husband Harry shows up. His consciousness (and subconsciousness) upsets the precarious balance and, now, life and death in Silver Lake take on new meaning. How can one possibly die if one is already dead; how could one possibly be dead if one feels alive? These are just some of the questions in Sleepeasy. Through deliciously dark humor and intriguing characters, Wright allows us to explore these issues while deftly navigating us through both the corporeal world and one not quite so. If you like the challange of balancing several related plots and trust that Wright will creatively build the bridge between these worlds, you will absolutely love Sleepeasy. And you also may never again look at a field of sunflowers in quite the same way.
Rating: Summary: Why isn't this man on the NY Times Bestseller List? Review: What a wonderful, unique, creative and enthralling work! It's not for everyone. If you're a fan of Dick Laymon, you won't like T.M. Wright. But if you like dark fantasy that makes you a part of the action, and characters who you really care about, and prose that's unbeatable in the field, then Wright is for you. Sleepeasy is a gem!
Rating: Summary: Why isn't this man on the NY Times Bestseller List? Review:
What a wonderful, unique, creative and enthralling work! It's not for everyone. If you're a fan of Dick Laymon, you won't like T.M. Wright. But if you like dark fantasy that makes you a part of the action, and characters who you really care about, and prose that's unbeatable in the field, then Wright is for you. Sleepeasy is a gem!
Rating: Summary: Bad, bad, bad Review: A poorly written novel with unbelievably motivated characters. A word of advice, T.M.: take a beginning English class, learn how to write.
Rating: Summary: a serendipitous stumble Review: I was in the Delaware USO and stumbled upon this book. I read it straight through and have never read anything like it. Although there are disturbingly vivid scenes it reads more like a science fiction work than horror. I don't know what genre to place it, but this work of fiction is imaginative, original, and offers a different opinion (well based) on the afterlife.
Rating: Summary: a serendipitous stumble Review: I was in the Delaware USO and stumbled upon this book. I read it straight through and have never read anything like it. Although there are disturbingly vivid scenes it reads more like a science fiction work than horror. I don't know what genre to place it, but this work of fiction is imaginative, original, and offers a different opinion (well based) on the afterlife.
Rating: Summary: Worthy of a Bram Stoker Award Review: My only problem with this book was that I didn't read it sooner. This is an original, refreshing, and creepy novel by one of horror's veterans. There is no question T. M. is a great writer, but beyond that - and more importantly - he's a great storyteller. I breathed a sigh of relief after reading this book because I felt lucky that I stumbled upon his work. Many good authors get swept under the radar for whatever reason... bad marketing by publishers, readers not willing to take a chance on a new author, bad cover art, etc. But the good news is that I've found him, and that's all that really matters. Thank you, Mr. Wright. You are truly inspiring.
Rating: Summary: Worthy of a Bram Stoker Award Review: My only problem with this book was that I didn't read it sooner. This is an original, refreshing, and creepy novel by one of horror's veterans. There is no question T. M. is a great writer, but beyond that - and more importantly - he's a great storyteller. I breathed a sigh of relief after reading this book because I felt lucky that I stumbled upon his work. Many good authors get swept under the radar for whatever reason... bad marketing by publishers, readers not willing to take a chance on a new author, bad cover art, etc. But the good news is that I've found him, and that's all that really matters. Thank you, Mr. Wright. You are truly inspiring.
Rating: Summary: Wright's world is right for horror fans Review: Silver Lake is the perfect place for Barbara Briggs to spend her afterlife in since the town is her creation and is quiet, small, and friendly. When Bab's husband Harry barrels through town in a trench coat, a fedora, and a 38 to fulfill a dream of becoming a sleuth, he upsets the town's serenity. His subconscious sets Sydney Longstreet, a deadly serial killer, loose on the unsuspecting living.
Harry and a real private detective Sam have to stop Sydney because his victims are coming to Silver Lake upsetting the delicate cosmic balance. The duo crosses the lake by boat trying to reach the land of the living. Harry manages to return, but forgets that he is already dead while Babs using the name Amelia begins to watch her grip on reality slip. T. M. Wright has written an atmospheric horror story populated by regular people who happen to be dead, but caught in a strange and dangerous situation. Even the dead have to be careful in Mr. Wright's world. The characters are believable and fascinating as their constricted world changes. Any moment readers will expect Rod Serling to shout about a signpost visited by a Mr. Wright. Harriet Klausner
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