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"Stirring speculative fiction anthology"
Reviewed by Ann Leveille
Posted July 8, 2002 on The Best Reviews
Beyond the fragile veneer of the everyday world lurks a
frontier not open to ordinary exploration. No willing
pioneers trek this land, only the waylaid few sucked into a
domain where shadows have substance and nightmares spring
to life. It is a realm with only one road to travel, a road
with neither beginning nor end, a road which leads to a
place bordering the edge of oblivion ...
SummarySubterranean Heartbeats is a collection of sixteen Twilight
Zone-type stories. They are compelling tales which delve
into our most haunting nightmares.
While some of the stories are suitable for older children,
others graphically depict the seamy side of adult life.
Dialogue is realistic, gritty at times. From richly
described settings to the heartfelt yearnings that run deep
in her characters, Ms. Kemp-Jones packs a lot into each
story. Common to all the stories are plots which twist into
unthought-of endings, each giving me cause to reevaluate
what I thought I had been reading. Ms. Kemp-Jones is a
master of luring you into the plot until it is beyond your
ability to retreat, often times leaving you dangling from a
craggy precipice, left to wonder with awe, When had the
road taken this turn? At what point did I begin to lose
solid footing?
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