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A review by kyrilson
Manifest Recall by Alan Baxter
4.0
I really enjoyed this book by Alan Baxter. He's one of those writers that are an auto-buy for me. As soon as he comes out with a new book, I pick it up. I actually read this a while back, but I was rereading it in preparation for the sequel "Recall Night" and realized that I hadn't reviewed this. Excellent book. This is a very fast paced noir style book with supernatural dashes thrown into it for good measure.
We open the book with Eli Carver driving a car and he has no memory, and a young woman next to him is tied up, and ghosts of men he's killed are in the back seat haunting him. And he's fleeing from something, something terrible that he just can't face head on.
Baxter does a great job of feeding the reader the pieces of Eli's memory slowly, through excellent use of flashback technique that is seamless and well done. The writing is excellent (as always from Mr. Baxter). Everything builds to an explosive ending that's very satisfying. There isn't much in the way of horror here, it's more of a noir/crime novel and it is a well done one.
We open the book with Eli Carver driving a car and he has no memory, and a young woman next to him is tied up, and ghosts of men he's killed are in the back seat haunting him. And he's fleeing from something, something terrible that he just can't face head on.
Baxter does a great job of feeding the reader the pieces of Eli's memory slowly, through excellent use of flashback technique that is seamless and well done. The writing is excellent (as always from Mr. Baxter). Everything builds to an explosive ending that's very satisfying. There isn't much in the way of horror here, it's more of a noir/crime novel and it is a well done one.