Sunday With Scribner: Mind Blown

NESCATA by Joshua Scribner proved to be a difficult read for me. For at least half of the novel, I felt quite ignorant, as if I didn't have the IQ to grasp the plot. I'm still not sure I understand what in the hell takes place.

At first, I thought this might be an unusual take on time-travel, in which the consciousness is not bound in a linear fashion, but, by the end, I feel like maybe this is more about time-tampering by an ascended species...or I don't have clue about anything in this book.

Whatever Scribner is trying to get at, he could have gotten there with half the pages. The story is very disjointed, as if a schizophrenic wrote Jacob's POV. In fact, I don't even know if I can trust anything about Jacob's perception of events. For all I know, he could have been dying on the roof of his car, with his brain splattered across the back windshield, while his mind created everything as a justification for his suicide.

If anyone else attempts reading this novel, please share your thoughts with me.

As always,
AstraDaemon

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Kody Boye is the winner of an autographed copy of The Bell House. I'll announce the next contest as soon as I get the Monday review up, which will be delayed until some time on Tuesday, due to a personal emergency.