DiSemblance
Jason Tanner’s life has always been different from the ordinary citizen’s. It started when he was an infant and his parents were only teenagers. A computer science prodigy, Lloyd attended MIT but left a pariah in the eyes of the school’s dean—but a computer physics genius in the eyes of his primary investor. Then his theories and ideas created a holographic machine and their world shrunk as contact with the outside world became less and less frequent. A computer prodigy now himself, Jason is about to learn that the world never waits for you if you have the ability to change it: it will come for you. Detective Bruce Durante has been handed the case of the Comfort Killer, a serial killer so named because he appears to abduct terminally ill patients before returning their corpses to their families in refrigerated coffins. When he picks up the trail, it leads straight to the home of Lloyd Tanner. Jason has been living life through the world of Lloyd’s invention and wishing he could carry on a relationship with Boston, the beautiful girl next door. When his father is murdered and framed as the Comfort Killer, he is brought back to reality in a hurry. He is forced to destroy all of the planted evidence—and finds he is being targeted as the killer’s new fall guy. But the secrets of his father’s invention run deep and Jason, his brother Isaac,Boston, the Comfort Killer, and Detective Durante hurtle towards one another on a deadly collision course that leaves everyone’s life hanging in the balance.
EXCERPT
Jason lunged, grasping the
barrel of the gun with both hands. The large man countered, wrenching it back.
Jason yanked, but his attacker would not let go. The gun jerked violently
between the two aggressors, twisting back and forth as they struggled for
control until—bang!
Jason released his grip. The
large man gulped hard and stepped back. Jason felt his knees buckle, and he
dropped to the ground. His shirt sagged with blood, his head light. He glanced
at Boston. She was screaming and struggling to get free of the ropes that bound
her so she could get to him.
“Riggs! What’d you do?” the
small man yelled angrily as he sat up rubbing his head. “Paden’s gonna kill
you.”
MY REVIEW
First I’d like to thank the author for providing me a copy
of her book in exchange for an honest review, for a blog tour.
When I started the book, I thought, cool, this sounds like
Star Trek, and you can imagine my glee when the character describes it the same
way. But that’s about it when it comes
to Star Trek. From there we are thrown
into mystery, murder, suspense and a true thriller novel. There is a total uniqueness to this story
that really impresses me, especially with the direction that YA/Teen novels are
currently progressing. This one will
satisfy those who want a mystery minus the paranormal.
The characters themselves do not have an even flow. I’m not sure if this was intentional or
not. Being that Jason and Isaac had
basically been social outcasts since their father cut them off from the world
and homeschooled them plus kept them mentally tuned to technology than with
sociology there should be an awkwardness to them. Sometimes I felt that, but then there were
times that when they should have been basically falling over themselves, they
weren’t. The romantic chemistry between
the characters didn’t mesh very well either and I feel that could definitely use
an overhaul.
There are layers of stories here which in turn gives the
reader different character personalities and has the reader keeping their
thinking cap on. What will happen to
this couple? Who is real? How in the world did they do that? More questions, but the ending does a pretty
good job of giving you the answers needed until the next book comes out.
All in all it was interesting read and again, for those who
are looking for something a bit more grounded, almost Mission Impossible style,
they will surely enjoy this book. Those
who are all out techno wizards will also enjoy this book. Read only paranormal or contemporary? You will probably not enjoy this, but hey,
not every book is for every person.
Author Shanae Branham
I am a professional writer with a bachelor’s degree in creative writing and a minor in grammar. I have also attended several years of classes and workshops in screenplay writing at the Los Angeles Screenplay writer’s Expo.
I love suspense thrillers and am a master at plot and character development. I enjoy stories with happy endings. I promise all my readers that when they put one of my books down or walk away from one of my movies, they will be enthused with excitement and joy. This does not mean there will not be some sad parts, because you have to feel the bitter in order to understand the sweet. In fact, I have struggled with Dyslexia my whole life, so you can imagine how overjoyed I was when DiSemblance won a Silver metal in the fantasy/science fiction category at the eLit awards in 2012.
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