Jack Devins is an advertising copy writer who is facing changes at work.
This novel starts off really good. Jack rides as a passenger on the New
York subway trains. One day Jack goes onto the platform and enters
another world, a world I can't relate to. From here this novel descends
into a fantasy nonsense.
Trainland, an area and time within the New York subway system is another
world full of horrors, a living hell. There are living dead people,
zombies etc living in purgatory. They are all trapped in a world of
madness they want to escape. Jack tries to get out of Trainland and must
battle with many demons. He also has to deal with the grief of losing
his daughter Kelly in an earlier accident and to stop blaming himself.
I gave up on this ridiculous plot and did not know where it would end.
Thankfully there is a big twist approaching the end and you can finally
make sense of this nonsense. Trainland questions our perceptions of
reality. Details revealed earlier in this story now make sense and then
you start to understand Jack's problems. I did not like this story
format, the mix of reality and imagination that treats the reader as a
child. Rather than entertain the reader, this book annoys because of
it's distortion of reality.
Trainland is available as a 490 KB Amazon Kindle eBook and was written
in 2012. I think it is a disappointing read, a poor book that I shall
vote only 2 stars and suggest you give it a MISS.
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