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This Brilliant Darkness Contemporary Dark Fantasy eBook Red Tash Leslea Tash

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This Brilliant Darkness Contemporary Dark Fantasy eBook Red Tash Leslea Tash

A wonderful blend of darkness and weirdness, I bought a copy of this book a while back and was glad that I finally got around to reading it. I'm no fan of spoon-fed plots that treat the readers like fools. This is a thinking book that truly allows your imagination to run wild. I liked the blend of realism with fantasy. The characters and dialogue are well composed I liked Simon and the philosopher. The story is put together in the most fascinating way that works out in the end. An excellent read and I highly recommend it.


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This Brilliant Darkness Contemporary Dark Fantasy eBook Red Tash Leslea Tash Reviews

I enjoyed this book. I love Red's voice. She put me right in the action. I felt as if all the confusion was happening to me. The demon (or space demon bat or whatever it was) was NOT something I'd ever want to meet in a lit cell let alone on a dark forest path. I got the distinct feeling that it would eat anything. The terror was delicious and scary because it wasn't well defined. What ruins a good horror story for me is a surfeit of blood and guts, where every horrific act is shoved in one's face instead of left to the imagination of the reader. Red took care of that bit quite well.

I don't care for swearing in my books, although I suppose I'd have had a few choice words while getting tossed through windows and chomped on by space bats. I also didn't appreciate the sexual undertones. This would be an R-rated movie, which I don't watch.

What I didn't like (but what put me right into the story) was not really having a clear picture of who was talking or what was actually going on most of the time. Maybe I'm used to being spoon-fed plots, but I'd love to have known if there were two kinds of monks, and where the monks actually fit into the story. The monks and the bat thing remain a total mystery. Christine's part I understood the best. I 'got' her confusion at the strange things going on in her life, though not WHY they were happening to HER. Why was she singled out? I understood Tom's part as the bystander boyfriend, though he didn't do much to save her. And I understood the Professor's research, though not the significance of flying around in a silver roller girl suit and roller skates.

At first I thought most of the male characters were there to save Christine from her dreadful fate, or at least TRY. Even the strange student with the angelic aura did nothing. I was looking everywhere for meaning in Christine's fate and finding nothing. Was she meant to be the final instrument of the bat thing's demise? If so, we don't get that happening. Maybe this whole work is an ode to the incomprehensible way in which life twists sometimes. If so, I feel for your emptiness, Red.

The book was gripping, terror-filled, and interesting. It kept me seeking until a couple of hours after I finished the last page. Good job, Red.
This was the first book I read of Reds, & it knocked me for a loop. Gorgeous plot, wonderful writing which took, & takes, me to a place within this world that I had never imagined. A dark tale told from several viewpoints, of a dark creature & the dark places it takes people.

Quote #1 "She thought of the elephant-headed god Ganesha, & she wondered what "crazy" might mean to God. She snaked her arms through the air, & laughed." (page 130, paragraph 1)

So much crazy sht going on in this tale, but is it really?

Quote #2 "In the woods, on the brick-lined paths between Third Street & the office, the monster--Greachin was his name--had found Richard. Tristan felt it.

He took his position, white silvery wings folded behind him, in a shady alcove of the round room. She would be here soon. The time was upon them." (paragraph 2,3; page 196)

As indeed it was. Such plain words, such simple turns, used to such great effect. The entire book unfolded in my mind as I read, thanks to Reds' skill as a storyteller.

1 Visual "Large black wings. A wisp of oily feathers & a beak as hard & smooth as steel. A powerful chest, muscled like a man's, & leathery wings that would support such a body in flight. Over eight feet tall.

The woman shivered in her sleep." (paragraph 10-1, pages 45-6)

It doesn't take an over-abundance of adjectives to provide a vivid picture. *So* nice to read a writerwho understands this. This is a book to swallowed whole, in one setting, & then stroked, sweetly, one chapter at a time. Impatiently, it seems I must wait for the second installment.
Red Tash has a beautiful, lyrical style that is unique and fresh. In "This Brilliant Darkness" she's evoked a realistic, charming setting with just enough dark corners and creepy byways. The cast consists of richly rendered characters including a quirky collection of college-town oddballs and eccentrics, and neomythic, possibly trans-dimensional creatures. Her setting is so well-rendered that I feel like I could drive an hour north and find it. And she manages to create peculiar characters that also ring true and seem completely realistic, no small feat.

Everybody has their own story, everybody's story seems fascinating, and everybody gets at least a little of their story told. In fact, if I have any complaint about the book, it's not so much the fractured storytelling style (which probably will be off-putting for some readers). I actually like the round robin of POVs. It's that it seems clear that the whole story is much larger than we see, and it sometimes feels like we don't get quite enough to go on. To a certain extent, it feels like the first half of a book, rather than the first book in a series. There's a lot, lot, LOT of build-up, and the climax comes at the very end with almost no aftermath shown.

Some people will be fine with that, and just take it as "this is the first book in probably an epic trilogy." Some people will be upset with the somewhat abrupt ending.

I absolutely loved Red Tash's Wizard Tales. Her young adult book "Troll or Derby" is a dark, yet fun mashup of horror and fantasy similar to "This Brilliant Darkness." I suspect that taken as a whole with the eventual next chapter, I'll grow to love "This Brilliant Darkness." As it stands, on its own, I really like it a lot.
A wonderful blend of darkness and weirdness, I bought a copy of this book a while back and was glad that I finally got around to reading it. I'm no fan of spoon-fed plots that treat the readers like fools. This is a thinking book that truly allows your imagination to run wild. I liked the blend of realism with fantasy. The characters and dialogue are well composed I liked Simon and the philosopher. The story is put together in the most fascinating way that works out in the end. An excellent read and I highly recommend it.