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original and well written, the story just wasnt really my cup of tea and the ending was lacking.
I did enjoy reading the story and how well written it was. But there wasn't alot to the story. This is why I gave it only 3 stars. This was a short supernatural tale. About a man name Jack that lives by the bay and what happens when his grandson visits.
High-concept horror/sci-fi with a lot of heart. An easily digested novella about a grandfather and grandson's encounter with some inexplicable and deeply unnerving sandcastles, but really about language, connection, and the chaos lurking just beyond the threshold of the human.
I originally gave Gary Fry's Emergence four stars, but after a day or so of the story simmering in my thoughts, going over some of the themes, I had to move up to five stars. I even moved it into my favorites. Every time I think about Emergence, the more I like it.Is Emergence a perfect story? No. It's not. No story is. Emergence is a slow burn with an ambiguous ending that I know will leave a bad taste in some people mouths. But not mine. For me, the characters and, as mentioned, the themes tou...
I did like this story, however, there was not a whole lot to it. The writing was good and the character(s) were well drawn but it just lacked some depth for me. I found the premise interesting just wish that there was more time spent on the "events".
Emergence, by Gary Fry, if you ask me, can be read two ways.There's absolutely no doubt that it is written beautifully, with language which is honed to perfection, and a cracking storyline.So, we have Jack, recently widowed, probably spending a little too much time by himself at his remote seaside house in North Yorkshire. He worries about his mental faculties and about ageing. His seven-year-old grandson Paul comes to stay for a week. Paul himself is dyslexic and Jack, a former school teacher,
Ages & ages ago I joined the DarkFuse book club. Life happened and I never got round to reading anything they sent. Most of them bad pretty kick ass jacket art, the kind that begs to be read and Fry's Emergence was one of the most intriguing. Now, six, seven years after its release, I'd have been better served pondering what the story would be like rather than reading it. Cookie cutter characters and an almost non-existent plot. Reading this on the Kindle O was about 50-55% in before anything re...
This wasn't a typical horror novella, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.A young boy arrives at his grandfather's house by the sea for a week. What should be a fun visit for the boy is turned into something else altogether.I liked the philosophic nature of this story; it talks about aging, one's fears and desires. It also presents some interesting questions about what form alien life would take if it were trying to communicate with us.I can't elaborate for fear of ruining the story for someone but I'm...
I think that great fiction is about people and a writer that is very good with characters is one that I want to read. Just my humble opinion. "Emergence," first and foremost is about a man and his grandson. It is about growing old, losing the other half of yourself and being left alone to spend those remaining days and hours suddenly alone. It is about connecting to the people we care about, in this case, a grandchild. You will see yourself in these characters. They are real.And it is about fear...
An excellent novella that struck me as being a first-class spiritual successor to The Colour Out of Space and The Willows. It works very effectively with its balancing of cosmic horror against the relationship between a grandfather and his grandson, creating a powerful emotional engagement that it could be argued isn't always the strong point of cosmic horror stories. It is here. There are echoes of the author's earlier work, The Respectable Face of Tyranny, as we see the minor things, little de...
I do not recommend this story. I really wanted to like this but I felt that the author had a specific intent of what he wanted to get across and it was completely lost on me. Things may not seem what they appear to be? There were some brilliant moments within the story where there was written color that made everything seem alive but then moments where it seemed cold sterile, almost like reading a college text book. I don’t mind that the mystery was left open but what bothered me was how the und...
A predictable, ho-hum novella about a grandfather and his grandson discovering symmetrical cones on the beach. From the amazing cover I was expecting to be blown away (especially on the heels of the excellent novella Children of No One by Nicole Cushing), but alas, the cover was better than the story for me. I've seen this general story told too many times before.I liked the relationship between the grandfather and son but never felt fear, darkness or enough tension or conflict in what happened
