Never Ignore Monica!
by Jim Lively
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Pub Date 29 Aug 2023 | Archive Date 27 Oct 2023
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Description
All young Simon Steed wants is to be accepted by his peers, his teachers, and his family, and to be recognized for his special talents and superior intellect. Yet when everyone rejects and teases him instead, even accusing him of being “weird,” he hopes someday they’ll get what’s coming to them.
One by one, each of them meets with sudden and dangerous accidents, some of them fatal. All the while, Simon observes in silence or learns later of their tragic outcomes.
Could these coincidences be…? After he meets a beautiful young woman named Monica in college, he’s smitten by her devoted attention and charm, but her abrupt disappearance breaks his heart.
Did he ignore her? What went wrong? When the local media reports her death as a suicide, the facts don’t add up.
The photo of the victim isn’t Monica, but her sinister roommate instead. Where is Monica? Even if it takes him years, he’ll keep searching.
Then Simon will promise he’ll never ignore Monica ever again. Unless…
Advance Praise
A dark, deeply unsettling supernatural thriller...
A sinister presence forces a brilliant attorney to embrace his inner darkness in Lively's gripping latest. As a young child and an adolescent, Simon Steed has known there's something inside him that, when provoked, could bring chaos in the lives of those he abhors. During college, he meets lovely Monica and forms a close bond with her. But Monica disappears. The news of her suicide reaches Simon, and the girl in the news is not the Monica he knows. Simon is an interesting character. His desire to avenge those who have wronged him drives the narrative in the first half. In the second half, it's him against the darkness. Lively deftly tells the story mainly in the third-person omniscient perspective that alternates with Simon's brief inner monologue, who (like the reader) is clueless about the reason behind the strange happenings around him. The explanations are frighteningly vague until the book's shattering finale puts matters into clearer focus, leaving Simon horrified. A page-turning thriller with a touch of otherworldly.
August 6, 2023, Prairiesbookreviews
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9781959127123 |
| PRICE | US$2.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 166 |
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I really enjoyed reading this book! The story kept me gripped throughout and I will definitely look at reading more by the author in the future.
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