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A review by tmdavis
Castle by J. Robert Lennon
1.0
This took me forever to read because of the narrator, who rambles on endlessly about everything. The gist of the story here is that Eric Loesch returns to his hometown of Gerrysburg, New York after years away because of a widely publicized bad career move. He buys a house and some land out in the middle of nowhere and then discovers that he doesn't own a portion of land in the middle of the woods. Even weirder is that the owner's name is blacked out on the papers he has received.
Once Eric begins his investigation into who owns the land, apparently repressed memories begin to come back to him from his childhood--and these are not good memories. And finally, almost at the very end of the book does the reader find out Eric's story and what happened that drove him home.
This was a book that is a very slow read and was supposed to be a novel of paranoia and a thriller. Paranoia, I just didn't get and it definitely wasn't a thriller because it moved too slow for me and was at times quite boring. It often brought on a fit of narcolepsy whenever I tried to read it. I finished it thinking that there had to be some redeeming quality since it was a bookmarks pick but by the end I was just fed up.
Once Eric begins his investigation into who owns the land, apparently repressed memories begin to come back to him from his childhood--and these are not good memories. And finally, almost at the very end of the book does the reader find out Eric's story and what happened that drove him home.
This was a book that is a very slow read and was supposed to be a novel of paranoia and a thriller. Paranoia, I just didn't get and it definitely wasn't a thriller because it moved too slow for me and was at times quite boring. It often brought on a fit of narcolepsy whenever I tried to read it. I finished it thinking that there had to be some redeeming quality since it was a bookmarks pick but by the end I was just fed up.