Limbus
By Julian Vaughan Hampton
Vaughanworks
Nov. 2005
200 pages
$12.95
ISBN: 0-9771160-0-X
Fiction
Driven by her creativity to be a sculptor, Pamela offers her letter of resignation at her well paying job. After committing herself to forming an abstract image of John Quincy Adams, using a Venetian-style and New Orleans influence, she's invited by her famous art professor to enter her work in an exclusive showing.
While she's hard at work, Sierra has an eye on Pamela's husband, Duncan, and she won't give up in her little cat and mouse game. Duncan agrees to a drink with his co-worker, Sierra, and returns home to find an opened can of beer, the smell of men's cologne and begins to think the worst. He might not have slept with his sexy co-worker, but he wasn't an angel. Pamela comes home from the art show, pleased that she's made $90,000 from her first sculpture, only to find her husband asleep and lipstick on his cheek. What the hell is going on?
If one marriage destroyer isn't enough, another emerges after Pamela is nearly killed in a car accident. This one she knows, but she's confused to why he's thinking that they are a couple. Things quickly turn deadly when her admirer puts his plans into action.
I read LIMBUS's ARC, which, to be honest, needed a lot of assistance in the editing department. That's why I prefer reading the finished book. So I can't say if every typo I noticed was corrected. For the most part, the book follows in the tradition of Twilight Zone. It warns that you don't play with what you don't know anything about. Also, that someone may actually be out to get you in more ways then one.
2 3/4 out of 5 clay sculptures
Denise Fleischer, gottawritenetwork.com
December 2005
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