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Road Seven

di Keith Rosson

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Mark Sandoval--resolutely arrogant, covered head to foot in precise geometric scarring, and still marginally famous after Hollywood made an Oscar-winner based off his memoir years before--has been strongly advised by his lawyer to leave the country following a drunken and potentially fatal hit and run. When a woman sends Sandoval grainy footage of what appears to be a unicorn, he quickly hires an assistant and the two head off to the woman's farm in Hvíldarland, a tiny, remote island off the coast of Iceland. When they arrive on the island and discover that both a military base and the surrounding álagablettur, the nearby woods, are teeming with strangeness and secrets, they begin to realize that a supposed unicorn sighting is the least of their worries.… (altro)
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This book is drool worthy. I am once again book drunk thanks to Keith Rosson.

I'll admit, I doubted him being able to top [b:Smoke City|36319320|Smoke City|Keith Rosson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1506618086l/36319320._SX50_.jpg|57993919]. Which is an amazing mind fuck of a book. But Road Seven delivers.

I'm a sucker for fiction books about books/writers/libraries/anything literary so one of the main characters being a washed up writer was swoon worthy for me in reading the blurb. Disaster characters are my favorite characters.

The complexity of the plot and every single character in the story is great, it's better than great, it's relatable. Every. single. person. in this book could be your neighbor, your friend, that weird guy in your city.

The story has so many moving parts, as you read it's hard to see how they will ever fit together, or who might be hallucinating but they magically piece together in a terrifying yet mystifying way.

By the end you're left wondering if you're living your best life, if you've made the right choices, and what you can do to start doing so. If you love books that are deep yet fantastical, light but heavy- you're going to want to pick up Road Seven. This book will take you to places in your mind you probably avoid and make you ponder your mortality.

It was hard to put down, and left me puzzled in all the right ways.

I received this book via NetGalley.

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  SabethaDanes | Jan 30, 2023 |
Rarely will I compare a book to another work because I want to make sure an author gets full credit for their originality, but I felt this so much that in this case I will make an exception. There is a very strong “Stranger Things” vibe going on throughout this book, but trust me, it is still wildly unique and has plenty of its own flavor to bring to the table.

From the first few pages I was laughing hysterically and this humor continued right through until the very end. Rosson’s way of writing moves along at an easy and steady pace that is so entertaining. I especially loved that much of the story was based out of the Pacific Northwest since that’s where I’m located. Barring the tiny bit of strange and prophetic mentions of specific places that have been in the news recently, such as Capitol Hill and Cal Anderson Park. Even the obscure mentions of my local grocery store gave me a little thrill.

It’s such an untraditional monster story that really gives you no clue as to how it’s going to end, but you don’t even really care, because the journey is a riot.

Thank you, Meerkat Press, for my copy for an honest review. ( )
  LiteraryGadd | Jan 16, 2023 |
Given to me from the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program in mistake, but the publisher said to keep it and sent me my original request as well.

It's taken me the best part of a year and 3 tries to read it; I kept stalling and my reading slump last summer didn't help either. Basically, 2 guys go cryptid hunting in a independent territory of Iceland. Both guys are basically losers; one is a perpetual student about to flunk out of his graduate programme, the other is an author who had a run-away best seller with what purported to be an autobiographical account of an alien abduction.

I had a hard time caring about either character and spent most of the book wondering why they were supposed to be remotely interesting.

Not my cup of tea at all.
  Maddz | Jun 16, 2021 |
Holy crap. This is Rosson’s third novel and the third one I have read. He just keeps getting better and better. I would recommend this to anyone who loves a little mystery, a little cryptozoology, a little black ops conspiracy. Good stuff. Like a Blue Öyster Cult album come to life. ( )
  railarson | Aug 30, 2020 |
I’d loved Keith’s first two novels, The Mercy of the Tide and Smoke City, both of which were 5* reads for me. Although I was eagerly anticipating reading Road Seven, I did find myself wondering if he could possibly engage and delight me as much with his third. However, after reading just the first few pages and immediately becoming immersed in the compelling nature of his story-telling, I felt totally confident that he could. Yet again he’s demonstrated his remarkable capacity for writing a story which makes the weird, the wonderful, the fantastic and the slightly crazy feel not only believable but also remarkably relevant to the world in which we live.
For very different reasons both Brian and Mark are using the expedition to Hvíldarland, to investigate the sighting of a unicorn, as a means to escape the messy reality of their real lives and to avoid taking responsibility, either for their actions or for what they need to do to put things right. Initially I felt so irritated with each of them, especially when they appeared unable to learn from their mistakes, that I found it almost impossible to feel any sympathy for either of them. Instead I was often left feeling exasperated by their moral cowardice and weakness, their aimless drifting. However, as the story progressed, and as the author gradually revealed their back-stories, I could begin to understand the background to their self-destructive behaviour and my tolerance and empathy increased. I’m sure that this ability to make me come to care about them comes down to the myriad ways in which Keith uses his brilliant insights into human behaviour, as well as his acute powers of observation, to create entirely credible and recognisable characters. It is an ever-present thread in his writing and is something I appreciate in his story-telling. In fact, each and every one of the characters in this story felt recognisable, something which added a rich dimension to the story.
When the two men arrive on Hvíldarland it soon becomes clear that their presence isn’t welcome and that, for reasons which are only gradually revealed, not only are they unlikely to get much help from local people, but they’re likely to meet violent opposition. Without giving away too much plot-spoiling detail, the developing story includes conspiracy theories, body parts, ghostly apparitions, a top-secret American military base hidden in the woods and Icelandic folklore, elements which make their search for the elusive unicorn a much more dangerous quest than they could ever have anticipated. As I found it almost impossible to predict the next twist or turn in the developing story, a very tangible “edge-of-the-seat” tension was added to my reading experience. Yet I felt happy to go on this roller-coaster of an adventure, confident that the author would guide me through safely, no matter how dark and dangerous it became!
However, there is lots of fun in this story too, with some wonderfully comic moments. Just one example is when the two men are forced to ride children’s bicycles in order to reach the pumpkin farm – you’ll have to read the book to discover why no other transport was available! The image of Sandoval, wearing his four-hundred-dollar jeans, riding a rainbow coloured one – “pedalling furiously with his elbows jutting straight out” – is one which remains vivid in my mind and is still having the power to make me smile as I write this review.
Although the there are elements of magical realism, science-fiction, horror, fantasy in this novel, Keith has used his vivid imagination and literary writing style to meld these into a genre-defying story. It’s a story which, at its heart, is about people – their fears and anxieties, how they negotiate life’s challenges, how they relate to others, what they believe in, the dreams they follow, their search for love and acceptance – in fact all those things which make us human.
Some of his metaphorical descriptions, his wonderful similes and his poetic phrasing were so powerful that there were many times when I just had to stop and re-read them, to marvel anew at their acuity. This ability to combine all these elements in such a smooth, coherent way is what makes Keith’s novels not only thought-provoking but also such a joy to read. Reaching the end of each of his books I’ve felt a strong sense that, whilst not blind to people’s foibles and shortcomings, nor to all that’s wrong in our world, he retains a sense of optimism that we’re all capable of achieving better things – and of finding the magic that surrounds us if we’re prepared to open our hearts and minds to it. Once I started Road Seven I found it so captivating that I could hardly bear to put it down so, if you haven’t read it, I hope my enthusiasm will encourage you to do so soon!
Before finishing I need to say how much I love the striking cover of this book. In addition to his skills as a writer, Keith is a talented illustrator and the graphics, as on all his covers, are his. I was immediately attracted by the design but it wasn’t until I’d finished reading the book that I realised just how many nods to the content of the story are incorporated into it – delightful!
With many thanks to Tricia at Meerkat Press for sending me a copy of this novel in exchange for my reflections … and to Keith for yet another gem. ( )
  linda.a. | Jul 1, 2020 |
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Mark Sandoval--resolutely arrogant, covered head to foot in precise geometric scarring, and still marginally famous after Hollywood made an Oscar-winner based off his memoir years before--has been strongly advised by his lawyer to leave the country following a drunken and potentially fatal hit and run. When a woman sends Sandoval grainy footage of what appears to be a unicorn, he quickly hires an assistant and the two head off to the woman's farm in Hvíldarland, a tiny, remote island off the coast of Iceland. When they arrive on the island and discover that both a military base and the surrounding álagablettur, the nearby woods, are teeming with strangeness and secrets, they begin to realize that a supposed unicorn sighting is the least of their worries.

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