Blog Tour: The Blue Man by Sue Lumb

SYNOPSIS

When a scientist falls overboard during a storm he has an underwater encounter with an inexplicable phenomenon. This has a profound and devastating effect. He finds himself in an intimate relationship, not only with the inhabitants of a remote Island who rescue him, but also with the creature he encountered. It begins to pursue him with a vengeance and whilst trying to understand it, he discovers the legend of the Blue Man recounts similar experiences. The narrative swoops from our world to another, revealing the existence of other beings and their cultures. As we become more familiar with these aliens we learn that they are desperately trying to avert a looming disaster on their planet.

REVIEW

It has been a while since I have finished a book and I don't automatically have something to say. Just like this book, my thoughts have been on a slow burn. This is not obviously a bad thing but has made me think a little more about what makes this book a thought-provoker. It's mysterious and in some ways, it feels like this story is beyond what we all understand. Such as what could be and what could happen as we don't really understand many things beyond this world and the characters in this book reflect this.

I think personally this book is for the inquisitive souls that we all know. It goes beyond the sci-fi genre by breaking down those walls we have come to understand of this style of book writing. It puts together ideas that we already have read and seen before in media and has twisted them into something completely new, which is more puzzling but weirdly exciting to see.

Cultures found in this book are scarily similar, as we delve into the lives of Ben and Quilliam and other folks. Trying to understand what is around them and why things are the way that they are. In some ways, we can relate this back to our own lives and how we are determined by what is around us, despite feeling there is something much more that we want to know of.

Even though the book is different to what I have been reading recently, I do feel like I have needed to read it. It's like it has woken me up from a dream that I didn't know I was in. I think maybe this is something that other people will feel when they also read the first page.

RATING: *** 1/2 STARS

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The Blue Man: A Door Opens to Worlds Beyond eBook : Lumb, Sue: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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