Chilling
Posted October 07, 2010
By fanforchrist2009,
Christy-Award winning novel Vanish is a one-of-a-kind novel, one whose scope is not often repeated by another in one decade. The book is a captivating and chilling debut by Pawlik.
Conner Hayden, an attorney who is practically married to his job and is divorced, begins seeing strange white, blank faces in his work office, downtown Chicago. Two others, aging model Helen Krause and mechanic Mitch Kent, also begin noticing strange things. Then, one morning they wake to find that everyone has simply...vanished. Desperate for answers, the three set out, eventually finding each other and uniting in their common quest. What they eventually find is one of the most disturbing truths of all - a dangerous place where strange creatures force them to relive their painful, equally scarred pasts.
Vanish has an outstanding yet disturbing finale, one that leaves the reader breathless with anticipation for the 2009 sequel, Valley of the Shadow. This very well-written and well-formulated novel kept me up hours into the night, waiting for that big moment of truth to come. And it did...with an even better conclusion than I had hypothesized. Tom Pawlik is definitively traveling into my Top 5 favorite authors - one who will shake the world with his imagination and still deliver wonderful themes. View All Music And Book Reviews By fanforchrist2009 | View fanforchrist2009's Profile
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