kingjason's review
4.0
One of the best things about reading a Rebecca Gransden book is that she weaves a tale that leaves your imagination to interpret what is going on. There are so many ways to understand the story that a small group of people would have their own ideas on the plot. This is my theory:
The Sea of Glass is a modern retelling of Dante's Inferno, instead of travelling downwards through hell to locate the route to Heaven, Kattar (our hero/traveller) is travelling up a big corporation's building to locate the EXIT. Each door he goes through could be a promotion to the next level on his way to the top. Kattar meets various people on his journey, who are being tortured in their own way having sold their souls to the big corp. As in the Inferno the people Kattar meets ask for his help, he meets somebody he knows and he has help himself from various guides. Having got the Inferno idea stuck in my head early on this made it a very interesting read.
It's nice to see the horror side of Rebecca's writing with her adding her surreal twist to things. Only downside to this book is how does one go about entering a tall building knowing they may never make it out again?
Blog post: https://felcherman.wordpress.com/2019/05/28/sea-of-glass-by-rebecca-gransden/
The Sea of Glass is a modern retelling of Dante's Inferno, instead of travelling downwards through hell to locate the route to Heaven, Kattar (our hero/traveller) is travelling up a big corporation's building to locate the EXIT. Each door he goes through could be a promotion to the next level on his way to the top. Kattar meets various people on his journey, who are being tortured in their own way having sold their souls to the big corp. As in the Inferno the people Kattar meets ask for his help, he meets somebody he knows and he has help himself from various guides. Having got the Inferno idea stuck in my head early on this made it a very interesting read.
It's nice to see the horror side of Rebecca's writing with her adding her surreal twist to things. Only downside to this book is how does one go about entering a tall building knowing they may never make it out again?
Blog post: https://felcherman.wordpress.com/2019/05/28/sea-of-glass-by-rebecca-gransden/
modquokka's review
5.0
Wow.
Surreal, crazy, horrifying and genius; I hardly know what to write. Sat (metaphorically speaking) in my own little pedalo and was swept along by the imagery, insanity and horror that is Rebecca's writing. I think that's pretty much all you can do.
Unique, but would appeal to lovers of VanderMeer (Area X) and King.
I loved Rusticles;
I loved this more...
Surreal, crazy, horrifying and genius; I hardly know what to write. Sat (metaphorically speaking) in my own little pedalo and was swept along by the imagery, insanity and horror that is Rebecca's writing. I think that's pretty much all you can do.
Unique, but would appeal to lovers of VanderMeer (Area X) and King.
I loved Rusticles;
I loved this more...
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