The Look
by Lee Coates
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Pub Date 28 May 2023 | Archive Date 20 Jun 2023
The Book Guild | Book Guild Publishing
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Description
Jim is a self-employed web developer living in Cardiff. Successful professionally, the future also looks rosy for his personal life, having recently proposed to his girlfriend, Ffion. However, when the couple decide to celebrate their engagement with his much-loved dad, Callum, Jim’s world is tilted on its axis.
Jim is convinced he spotted his dad staring at him – just for a split second – with a look of pure hatred. Did he imagine it? However, when a series of bizarre and catastrophic events strike Jim’s life in quick succession, he starts to wonder if the look he received from his father could mean something.
Eventually, Callum makes a confession that will lead to the total collapse of Jim’s life as he knows it…
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Jim is a self-employed web developer living in Cardiff. Successful professionally, the future also looks rosy for his personal life, having recently proposed to his girlfriend, Ffion. However, when the couple decide to celebrate their engagement with his much-loved dad, Callum, Jim’s world is tilted on its axis.
Jim is convinced he spotted his dad staring at him – just for a split second – with a look of pure hatred. Did he imagine it? However, when a series of bizarre and catastrophic events strike Jim’s life in quick succession, he starts to wonder if the look he received from his father could mean something.
Eventually, Callum makes a confession that will lead to the total collapse of Jim’s life as he knows it…
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781915853851 |
| PRICE | £4.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 280 |
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Featured Reviews
Debra G, Reviewer
Something a bit different here.
An enjoyable read by a new author.
Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for my copy.
A worthy four star read.
Louise G, Reviewer
Life turns on a dime and this book takes that idea and runs with it. Just one look turns Jim’s life upside down. I really liked the concept and through the author did a good job of developing Jim and his relationships in such a way that I felt very invested in him and what happened. Some lovely use of language here, too, which was nice.
Robin P, Reviewer
I recommend this book largely for its curiosity value. It's a novel which refuses to be put in a genre pigeonhole.
Lee Coates launches into his debut with several stream of consciousness passages which give little indication of where the plot is likely to go. It's an innovative approach.
The horror when it comes is totally unexpected and brutally graphic and perhaps more so as it appears at this stage to have no human or supernatural intervention.
Suddenly relationships are thrown into turmoil: father and son, girlfriend and boyfriend; and the complexities of the plot are established.
I loved the total ambiguity of the ending and fates left hanging in the balance.
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