Four Stars

When the spousal unit sometimes travels on business, he brings me back a little something. In February, while browsing through a book store in Idaho, he came across a little (166 pages) book by Jonathan Aycliffe, and thought of me. Of course. The Lost is “A Novel of Dark Discoveries” as it so says on the cover. It’s a story written in a series of letters and journalistic transcripts (along the same vein as Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock).

This is a supernatural gothic with likable characters and a dark underbelly that slowly reveals itself as the author takes us, through Michael’s correspondence and Journal entries, into the world of appalling villainies in post communist Romania.

It is unsettling, and not one for the late night reader. Jonathan Aycliffe delivers a fine flow of a story-line with some unexpected surprises. If you like the gothic genre, foreboding dark castles, and things that go bump in the night, you will want to read this book.

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