Please bear with the following tirade:
I am unbelievably annoyed. I stumbled upon Mr. Burke's Turtle Boy yesterday and ended up trying to finish the series today: his writing is just that good. Because the press releases in April of 2012 stated that he was finishing up the series in few days, I kept reading. I was blithely unaware of exactly how disappointed I would feel when I was deprived of the final book in the series. It appears that Mr. Burke has had a personal problem and has delayed the release of Nemesis. I am selfish enough to hope he has fingers left to hit the keys on his computer.
On a serious note, I do not write reviews in the first person (read my other reviews). However, I stumbled upon the Timmy Quinn Series by accident: I was looking for a free book to blow off a couple of hours. I have read thousands of books and it is unusual to find an author I truly find gifted. It is more unusual to find one that is gifted and has unique ideas. Only Stephen King and Dean Koontz have excited me as much as Kealan Burke because they all write with a style that manages to evoke vivid mental images relating to a reader's own life experiences: thus, their books come alive in a reader's mind.
As for the Timmy Quinn Series, from a reader's perspective, it is difficult to figure out what books go where and when. They are: 1) Turtle Boy; 2) the Hides; 3) Vessels; 4) Peregrine's Tale; and 5) Nemesis (release has been delayed). A reader can purchase books one through four in a composite titled Stage Whisper: the Collected Timmy Quinn Stories. I encourage readers to do this as it will save them money and time. All of these books should have been incorporated into one volume/book instead of four separate short novellas. Readers will have to wait for Nemesis. The Turtle Boy can be gotten for free on Amazon, but this is a waste unless a small taste of this author's work is required to determine whether or not the series is worth reading.
The plot of the Timmy Quinn Series is very simple: I see dead people. The hook is that the dead people are (usually justifiably) seeking revenge for their untimely death and use poor Timmy as their conduit into this reality. I will not go into each book's plot as that is available as part of the advertisement on Amazon. However, if you are looking for a good horror story, you will not find better. Burke's intros are so candid they are hilarious. He's new, he's fresh, and he's creative. I just want him to stay sane enough to finish this series.
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