Title: A promising beginning, but...
Product review: The beginning of this book is promising- a young boy has repeated dreams of a huge wave which hovers over him, threatening to crash on him, but it never does. He also dreams of a peculiar but unidentifiable scent "The Whiff" sometimes in connection with The Wave, sometimes by itself. The description of his fright and obsession with these two dreams is written vividly and has a feeling of psychological realness. Unfortunately the rest of the novel doesn't live up to the first chapter- it's a meandering tale of romance and reincarnation which ends up in Egypt. Worth reading if you are a Blackwood fan who wants to carry away a few memorable images from the slog.
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