Dominic's Ghosts is a mythic novel set in the contemporary Midwest. Returning to the home town of his missing father on a search for his own origins, Dominic Rackett is swept up in a murky conspiracy involving a suspicious scholar, a Himalayan legend, and subliminal clues from a silent film festival. As those around him fall prey to rising fear and shrill fanaticism, he follows the branching trails of cinema monsters and figures from a very real past, as phantoms invade the streets of his once-familiar city and one of them, glimpsed in distorted shadows of alleys and urban parks, begins to look uncannily familiar.
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[On his tenth birthday, three years before his father vanished in the abandoned basement, Dominic went to see the newest Indiana Jones movie, the one about the Holy Grail]***
(Seventh Star Press., 17 August 2018, 528 pages, ebook, copy from @TCMPublicity, taking part in the blog tour on 16 February)
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This is my first time reading the author. Dominic's Ghosts is great and I need to read other books in the series. I really wasn't sure what to make of this delightful, strange book at first. I couldn't stop reading it, yet at times I had no idea what I was reading. I was in a dream, a strange surreal dream that I never quite wanted to leave. I would have loved this cracking book if not for the essays / reviews of various movies in between random chapters written by Dominic. I get their purpose but I just flicked though them to get on with the story. Maybe I missed something? Anyway, I had a great adventure with this book, especially the last few chapters.
