Imajica

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At the same time, this Liverpool, UK, resident possesses the ability to churn out some genuinely beautiful and breathtaking prose, which kept me flipping pages for its aesthetic alone.

Read Imajica and when you’re 100 pages in and say “this isn’t fantasy,” be prepared to revisit those thoughts. Also remembered is the moments after the reconciliation failed and the horror brought upon everyone when Sartori tampered with the ceremony and creatures from the In Ovo were released. Apparent female lead being brain-washed by repulsive fat man and then falling in love with him and having scene, after scene, after scene, of repulsive sex? The book begins with an estranged husband hiring an assassin to murder his wife, then changing his mind, sending his wife's former lover to stop the assassin. Yeah, some people might be turned off by a sub-plot that involves a complex "gay" relationship, but seriously.His paintings have been seen first on the covers of his official fan club magazine, Dread, published by Fantaco in the early Nineties, as well on the covers of the collections of his plays, Incarnations (1995) and Forms of Heaven (1996), as well as on the second printing of the original UK publications of his Books of Blood series. It is also about the various people who move in and out of their lives, and how they may be affected by an event known as the Reconciliation ~~ the time for which is quickly approaching. You are given ample time to get to know, understand, and love/hate the characters before they’re ripped apart.

The only thing keeping this ending from 5 stars is the amount of unanswered questions bouncing in my skull: Why did Judith end up loving Sartori with no real motivation other than he said he loved her (and knocked her up when she thought he was someone else)? His art is featured annually at IX in Reading, Pennsylvania, the world’s largest gathering of artists and collectors of Imaginative Realism. Gentle is a sensualist and master art forger whose life unravels when he encounters Judith Odell, a woman whose power to influence the destinies of men is greater than she knows, and Pie ‘oh’ pah, an alien assassin who comes from a hidden dimension, one of five in a great system known as Imajica. I understand this is a matter of expectations, but the novel's premise was so creative and cerebral that it bugged me to see it take such a narrow and unrewarding path after getting acquainted with it characters.

I don’t usually do fantasy, but I’m a fan of Barker’s because he mixes in likable (well, relatable anyway) characters and gore and lots of erotica.