Shameless Creations

I finally reviewed Garrett Cook’s, Archelon Ranch on Amazon today. Sorry that took so long, Garrett! What an amazing book. I suggest everyone take a look.

This book is an amazing odyssey for the reader, writer, and characters in the story. Not many authors can work themselves into their stories effectively. Fewer do it well. Garrett Cook has done an amazing job of making himself a character in, and really the entire story of, his book. During a gripping tale about an entirely different person, Mr. Cook is looking at parts of himself and blasting us with what he finds in a most delicious, twisted, elegant way. He TELLS us he’s looking at himself while he’s doing it and writes a brilliant story around that. Garrett Cook pulls it off, and he does it with fireworks.

Beside himself, this book is about the strange, horrible, enlightening journey of one tortured and mutated man and his antagonist. It takes us into a bizarro land where dinosaurs eat genetically altered humans as snacks from high above the city vinescape. We go to the Mall. I hated malls before I read about Garrett’s. I haven’t been to one since. The Mall in Archelon Ranch is the insane line between the “safe” city and the wilderness beyond. It’s a fitting boundary marker between the two hemispheres.

The story is wild, fun, weird, and cool. The writing is vivid, engaging, and downright excellent.

Go with the author on a ride within himself to discover the whys and whatnots of it all. You may find yourself at Archelon Ranch in the end. I think I did.