Midnight in Oz

Rating:
Summary: Mind-Ride
Review: MIDNIGHT IN OZ is a reasonably interesting read with engaging characters and a complex plot.
The story features Jack Stuart, a man who has it all; a beautiful wife a terrific job and two very well behaved children. Instead of feeling contentment, however, Jack has this inexplicable urge to leave it all and start over. He acts on this feeling on his drive home from work one evening, and heads for Florida, where he attempts to catch a flight to Paris. Things spiral out of control at the airport, and Jack ends up aborting his trip, heading instead to his condo, where he gets an unexpected visitor.

Kristen is a Harvard law student and a vagrant of sorts. Plagued by dreams of being buried alive, she has an irrational fear of flying. Kristen is on the move, when she witnesses a deadly stabbing, in which the victim directs her to Jack's address with his dying breath. When Jack tells her that he has never heard of the murder victim, she is astounded and they are initially suspicious of each other. They eventually discover that they have something in common; they are both amnesiacs. With too many unanswered questions, they embark on a quest for truth. What follows is a fascinating mind-ride that takes the reader into a surreal world of unimagined revelations.

Roger Helm takes a complicated subject matter and weaves a uniquely fascinating story around it, delivering it in a manner that keeps the reader involved from its beginning to its stunning conclusion. The depth of the scientific data presented gets a bit overwhelming at times but as a whole this book is a complex, well orchestrated story that opens the readers imagination to some of the moral and ethical implications of modern scientific advancements.

Reviewed by Autumn
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers