The
Boy Who Walked Too Far by Dom Watson
Series:
The Xindii Chronicles (#1)
Published:
September 22, 2020
Genre:
Science
Fiction Horror
Age Group: Adult
Pages: 409
Blurb:
It’s the end of the universe, and
everything has come undone. Entropy has won the war, but one last battle rages
in the half-ruined city of Testament.
No one knows who created this last outpost and peopled it with
billions of species. However, it is here, under a sky with no stars, that the
last remnants of life in the universe live, love, and pray to their many gods.
It is here where Godrich Felstrom dies.
Most residents of Testament care little for the affairs of a
single, fragile human, but the event brings back bad memories for Heironymous
Xindii.
It has been many years since the dreamurlurgy professor discovered his
true potential and doomed four people in the process. Now, he lectures to bored
students who dream of the many pleasures Testament has to offer. Xindii, on the
other hand, becomes obsessed with the mysterious Godrich and his missing soul.
As he and his valiant companion, the Neanderthal Solomon Doomfinger, look back
at Felstrom’s
last steps, they discover the shocking truth about Felstrom’s death, his destiny, and the future of
Testament and all those angels, demons, liars, and dreamers who call it home
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"So that's it. The Dawn rests on the efforts of stone man, an ape, and a Mapper with a drug addiction."
Where do I begin?
We are at the end. This is it, but humanity still keeps on kicking. Living on borrowed time. We have been around so long, religions are nothing, angles are godless. We have expanded it out, and some can travel within using Dreamurology. What are dreams and what is reality? The line is blurred. There are those that can weave a story, create a fiction so real that it can kill.
The Boy Who Walked Too Far is a gem of a book, a chiefs kiss. From the cover to the story with in it's pages. Now how does one review it?
Honestly I don't know how to talk to you about this story, other then be prepared to read a unique and fantastic book The world building and characters are so much better then I expected them to be.
Heironymous Xindii is a professor of Dreamurology, he is a Mapper. He can travel within the mind of others and access their dreams, their memories, he can do this willingly or with out them knowing it. He is one of the most powerful Mappers that there is. He can put you in a state of Reverie and make you live out the most horrific deeds you have committed until you die. He is tasked to look for a missing soul, and solve murder. With the help of Doomfinger and others we are lead down a spiral. As we figure out reality from fiction.
A murder mystery, and a hunt. Except this is not like any other murder mystery you have read. Right from the start this story is just a layer upon layer of information. There is so much We have angles, aliens, AI, Kraken. Houses that create life and nurture it, Gods that can't die but are not prayed to anymore and have gone mad. Humanity is so unlike it is today yet still exactly the same in the end.
I have never read anything like this before, I sat and though long about who I would compare this book to. and I came up blank. Dom Watson's mind must be a very interesting place.
Just needed to add I highlighted so many beautiful quotes that if I had the physical copy it would be very sticky tabbed.
Over all 4.5 stars
Do I want book 2? Omg yes please.
Do I want read anything else he writes? See above answer.
Thank you Storytellers and Dom Watson for this mindf**k of a book it fascinated me so.
Do you want to experience what I couldn't put into words?
Let's meet the man with the brilliant mind.
Dom Watson lives, writes, and dreams in Suffolk, England. He
enjoys life with his wife, daughter, and three cats. He also doesn't mind the
occasional glass of Merlot.
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