Skyscape

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Summary: A Dark, Foreboding Tale
Review: Curtis Newns is a brilliant young artist, perhaps the greatest of his generation, who is rapidly descending into mental illness. Red Patterson is a brilliant but erratic psychiatrist who has become a celebrity for his spectacular cures in front of a live television audience. Margaret is Curtis' devoted wife, desperately trying to protect the artist from onrushing disaster.

Somehow author Cadnum brings these implausible elements together in a riveting, fast-paced novel. Margaret will do anything to help her husband, even consult the celebrity psychiatrist. Patterson will do anything to get Curtis painting again and so enhance his own reputation. Even if it means taking the artist out of civilization and holding him prisoner in a desert hideaway.

Will Curtis ever paint again? Will he even survive? What will happen to their marriage? What evil lurks behind the charming facade of Red Patterson and how will it affect all who come into his orbit? You will have to read the book to find out. To tell the truth, much of it is a little hard to believe. You just have to accept it and read on. And when you do you will get hooked. The tempo slowly picks up and by the end you are racing through the pages. The author is a master of tone and atmosphere. In the very first pages he creates a mood of dark foreboding that only builds with each page.

This is a book that deserves more attention. I recommend it. Reviewed by Louis N. Gruber

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Summary: It's good...but it's not my favorite
Review: This book is a good book, but it's not my favorite book. This book moves too slow for me. I would not recommend this book to someone who like an action book.