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Adults Fall Asleep; Kids Take Over -- Review of A. Blue Cole's "Sleeping Sickness"

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Reviewer: Forrest Schultz schultz_forrest@yahoo.com 770-583-3258

December 1, 2014

Adults Fall Asleep; Kids Take Over

Review of

A. Blue Cole Sleeping Sickness (Indie Gypsy, 2014)
             246 pp $13.95 ISBN: 978061583086

Reviewer: Forrest W. Schultz

      There have been many stories in which chaotic conditions ensue after the sudden death or vanishing of large numbers of people. But I do not recall ever reading (or hearing of) a story like Blue Cole's recently published novel in which suddenly all adults go into a coma, and the children are left to fend for themselves. Cole presents interesting, exciting, and realistic portrayals of the children’s struggle to survive, and their struggle to discover the meaning of the comas of their parents. The intensity of the latter struggle increases dramatically when they learn that each one of them will also become a "Sleeper" after becoming eighteen years old! I recommend putting this book on your good-read/must-read list!

      Blue Cole is the latest addition to the ever growing ranks of Coweta County's writers who have had books published in the twenty-first century. And Cole pays tribute to today's Coweta County by setting his story there. He is the second Coweta author to do so, the first being Tamala Callaway with her Super Natural series.

      Cole has also written essays and short stories and he is planning more novels. Information is available on his website www.bluecole.com


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