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thomaswjoyce's review
Wow. What a wildly imaginative story! It begins with a young filmmaker (Vincent) meeting an older man (Brandon) and becoming immediately obsessed. But this is no romantic tale; Brandon is a homicidal psychopath to whom violence is a way of life. A religion. In some ways the beginning of their dynamic reminded me of Palahniuk's Fight Club with The Narrator and Tyler Durden, the way one character desperately needed the other and there is the question of identity, a question that comes up time and again throughout the book. There are moments of violence, moments of sex, but despite its graphic nature, I never once got the impression that it was gratuitous. Every scene served the purpose of developing the characters or furthering the story. And it is all written with a poetic prose that just kept me enthralled until the very end. Overall, I found the story of Ultra-Realism compelling and thoroughly well-written and I very much look forward to reading more from Chris Kelso.
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