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gizmoto16's review
3.0
The thing about having a Kindle is now you can get a bunch of free books. So I downloaded this awhile back, but just now got around to reading it and went into it having no idea what it was about. Turns out it's this CRAZY mix of Lost and the Matrix and a post-apocalyptic virus devastated world...and there's a talking chipmunk. I still don't know what all was going on here, but it was intriguing enough to keep me reading til the end.
thessilian's review
5.0
Excellent first novel by a talented author. I've been lucky enough to read the odd short before, but with this novel, Richard has out done himself in creating a mysterious world, populated by living, breathing characters.
Well worth a read - go buy it now!
Well worth a read - go buy it now!
thekarpuk's review
4.0
I have a great deal of respect for fiction where the author essentially plants a foot on your ass and shoves you out the door without explanation. Things will happen, exciting things by in large, and you must adapt and figure it out as you go. It's takes a certain kind of guts to even try this, let alone pull it off successfully.
Transubstantiate is chocked full of risk. It's told from multiple, very different perspectives, one of them not even human. It sits at an odd intersection between multiple genres. It doesn't hold your hand through any of it either.
And I read it very fast, because it was all so vivid and exciting. Many parts are almost breathtakingly odd.
You should read this book. It's so hard to summarize that the best description I can think of is, "It's the opposite of boring."
Transubstantiate is chocked full of risk. It's told from multiple, very different perspectives, one of them not even human. It sits at an odd intersection between multiple genres. It doesn't hold your hand through any of it either.
And I read it very fast, because it was all so vivid and exciting. Many parts are almost breathtakingly odd.
You should read this book. It's so hard to summarize that the best description I can think of is, "It's the opposite of boring."
craigwallwork's review
5.0
For me, and a few other writers who know Richard, Transubstantiate seems like the novel been around almost as long as we’ve known Richard. That’s not to say it was written a long time ago, quite the contrary. No, it’s through his enthusiasm and passion, energy and love for this novel, that Richard has ingrained Transubstantiate into my psyche forever.
By far one of the most uncompromising and determined writers around, Richard is gifted at prose as he is sincerely gracious. It’s sickening, if the truth be told. With a very envious publishing career where he was the winner of the ChiZine Publications 2009 “Enter the World of Filaria” contest, and his short story "Maker of Flight" was chosen by Filaria author Brent Hayward and Bram Stoker Award-Winning editor Brett Alexander Savory, not to mention having a story published in Cemetery Dance, I can’t help but feel inspired.
It’d be wise to see Transubstantiate as more the hors d'oeuvre before the main banquet, an appetizer of such allure it will make your mouth and stomach ache. It is the first of many, and the one that marks the beginning of a publishing career that will outlive most of us.
To whet your appetite, here is the official synopsis:
A neo-noir transgressive thriller about a man who has taken himself off the grid and punishes those that the law has overlooked or failed to prosecute. Altered and breaking apart, he follows orders while questioning the reality and motivation of those people that are in his life. A dark past filled with tragedy looms over him while he tries to embrace the ghost of Holly, his only female connection, under orders from Vlad, while taking care of his bedraggled cat, Luscious. At what point does he just end it all? Or does he stay in his role as judge, jury and executioner for the rest of his life?
By far one of the most uncompromising and determined writers around, Richard is gifted at prose as he is sincerely gracious. It’s sickening, if the truth be told. With a very envious publishing career where he was the winner of the ChiZine Publications 2009 “Enter the World of Filaria” contest, and his short story "Maker of Flight" was chosen by Filaria author Brent Hayward and Bram Stoker Award-Winning editor Brett Alexander Savory, not to mention having a story published in Cemetery Dance, I can’t help but feel inspired.
It’d be wise to see Transubstantiate as more the hors d'oeuvre before the main banquet, an appetizer of such allure it will make your mouth and stomach ache. It is the first of many, and the one that marks the beginning of a publishing career that will outlive most of us.
To whet your appetite, here is the official synopsis:
A neo-noir transgressive thriller about a man who has taken himself off the grid and punishes those that the law has overlooked or failed to prosecute. Altered and breaking apart, he follows orders while questioning the reality and motivation of those people that are in his life. A dark past filled with tragedy looms over him while he tries to embrace the ghost of Holly, his only female connection, under orders from Vlad, while taking care of his bedraggled cat, Luscious. At what point does he just end it all? Or does he stay in his role as judge, jury and executioner for the rest of his life?
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