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Reviewer: Forrest Schultz schultz_forrest@yahoo.com 770-583-3258
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September 4, 2017
Combating A Strange Malevolence
A Review of
Blue Cole Evil Upriver (Indie Gypsy Books, 2017)
232 pp $14.95 ISBN: 978-0998615103
Reviewer: Forrest W. Schultz
Blue Cole's Evil Upriver is comparable in certain respects to Stephen King's It. In both stories a town is being attacked by an unknown nearby underground malevolence which has been there a very long time, but only attacks periodically. Evil Upriver, though, is unlike It in that the team of townspeople which forms to combat this evil consists of adults, not kids, as in It.
Joining this team in Cole's story is Adam, a songwriter on a road trip who arrived in the town a few days ago. And, finally, there is another new arrival in this town -- Ricochet -- whose complex mystery I will allow you, the reader, to discover for yourself: it is not only mysterious in itself but also with respect to the question as to why Cole included it in his story. This story, like his first two, is a good read created by a writer with a great imagination -- I recommend it as I did the first two.
Joining this team in Cole's story is Adam, a songwriter on a road trip who arrived in the town a few days ago. And, finally, there is another new arrival in this town -- Ricochet -- whose complex mystery I will allow you, the reader, to discover for yourself: it is not only mysterious in itself but also with respect to the question as to why Cole included it in his story. This story, like his first two, is a good read created by a writer with a great imagination -- I recommend it as I did the first two.
Cole's story occurs in middle Georgia. He himself lives in Coweta County on the Southside of Atlanta. This is his third novel. Information is available on his website www.bluecole.com.
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