The Between

<p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>While landscaping his backyard ever-conscientious Paul Prentice discovers an iron door buried in the soil. His childhood friend and perpetual source of mischief Jay Lightsey pushes them to explore what's beneath. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>When the door slams shut above them Paul and Jay are trapped in a between-worlds place of Escher-like rooms and horror story monsters all with a mysterious connection to a command-line dungeon explorer computer game from the early '80s called The Between.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Paul and Jay find themselves filling roles in a story that seems to play out over and over again. But in this world where their roles warp their minds the biggest threat to survival may not be the Ko?maro risen from the Between's depths to hunt them; the biggest danger may be each other.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I found The Between dark super creepy and pushing the limits of my limited amounts of courage to explore-but I couldn't stop myself from coming back for more because it's propulsive addictive and scary good fun. - </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sean Gibson author of The Stuff About the Dragon Was (Mostly) True</em></p><p><br></p><p>...an incredibly intricate novel that skillfully blends aspects of horror sci-fi fantasy and cyberpunk. - <em>Nicole Willson author of</em> <em>Tidepool.</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>While in the first third of this book I mentioned that the atmosphere reminded me of one of my favorite horror novels SL Grey's </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Mall</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. There's a surreal not-right quality to that book that touched off a nerve in me that I just adored....I don't at all mean this as an insult as that's a damn fun book- and so is this one! ....It's almost like a grown up more gory and violent horror version of </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Heir Apparent</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. - </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Alexandra Goodreads</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This debut novel by author Ryan Leslie combines elements of science fiction and horror that at times reminded me of </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Hike</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> by Drew Magary and </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Off To Be The Wizard </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>by Scott Meyer all while being something distinctly different. - </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Matt Goodreads</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It was a great mix of horror sci-fi and adventure gaming! - </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Stephanie Goodreads</em></p>