FREE: Falling Upward

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While on a business trip in Wales, Neva Jones meets an unusual man named March. Back home in America, she re-encounters him and learns that March is a man under a curse, living between the real world and the dream world, repeating a cycle of events in an unbroken chain, and this will continue until the curse is broken. What's more, she is his only hope of breaking free. Neva agrees to help and finds herself in a world where legends come to life and things are always more than they seem to be. She also finds she is now part of the curse and breaking it will win her freedom as well, and she is somehow claimed by a surfer dude who is a sea deity. Undaunted, she is determined to win this challenge, for both their sakes.

Although the images conveyed by Ms. Sims' words are beautiful and the subtle humor she attempts to inject has charm, there's a lack of coherence to the narrative, making it hard to concentrate on what is happening, or to care about the characters. I hoped for something such as Charles De Lint creates in his pages, but it fell short.