One of my pet peeves is a book with no ending, or rather the worst kind - a book where the excitement begins, right at the end!
BUT, thank goodness for good art directors! The US cover is so beeyootiful, i bet it'll sell much better. So here are the two covers for comparison. And the UK softcover, with a human figure, which somehow makes it less ugly.
Still, if it ends hanging again, i shall know what to think about the author (that cheap trickster or some sort). And totally will refuse to promote his books ever again!!!!
It all began (sadly) at a bookstore bargains section, there was this really ugly book which i felt sorry for, so i bought it - The Hollow People by Brian Keaney.
It's about this boy called Dante, who's an orphan and practical nobody living and working in this asylum on the island of Tarnagar. There's something odd going on, as it turns out that this isn't the usual 'world' we're used to. In this Tarnagar, when the kids turn fourteen, they have their coming-of-age ceremony where they are given something called Inchor, a drug of sorts. This Inchor stops them from having dreams. Except Dante, who received Inchor a couple of years back, still had them.
Enter Bea. Her parents are resident doctors and she's about undergo her coming-of-age ceremony in two weeks. But Bea despises their dull and unchanging way of life, and yearns for freedom. It seemed fated that she meets Dante. And reveals to him the existence of a ruined city.
Okay, it may not seem very interesting but surprisingly, it's well written and absorbing. Read it in a day!
Author Keaney based his story on something called the Odyll Force. (Which in turn, i do not know if it is a fictional or not, 'cos when i googled it, nothing came up. Then again, whatever did people do or believe in before the Internet searching existed?) Anyway, there's an explanation behind the book if anyone ever gets to end of it.
BUT, thank goodness for good art directors! The US cover is so beeyootiful, i bet it'll sell much better. So here are the two covers for comparison. And the UK softcover, with a human figure, which somehow makes it less ugly. After i read the whole book, was so irritated because the ending is a cliff-hanger! What is wrong with this guy? That really spoiled it for me! The only consolation is the sequel, The Gallow Glass is just out in the UK. (and the cover looks ok) 
Still, if it ends hanging again, i shall know what to think about the author (that cheap trickster or some sort). And totally will refuse to promote his books ever again!!!!
If you're still curious after all my 'complaining', his website is http://www.briankeaney.com/
Honestly, i would like to read Gallow Glass, he writes well this Brian Keaney, well enough to get you hooked.
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