Hell of a Book - Jason Mott

Genre: Adult Fiction | Surrealist Fiction

Release Date: Expected 10th August 2021

Publisher: Orion Publishing Group | Trapeze

CW: Intense racial language, bullying, guns, violence, police brutality, swearing.

It's time for the book tour of 'Hell of a Book', which the Author has been told before really is a hell of a book. But once he meets The Kid, who looks just like the young black boy on the news that was shot by the police recently, the Author has a nw story to tell.

Now, he has to tell a sad story. The story of a boy who could be a halluination, or a ghost, or a memory. Or nobody at all. A boy who has tried for his whole life to learn the impossible trick of invisibility. A story that feels all too familiar to the Author...

Our story begins with our nameless Author being naked as a jaybird in a hotel hallway, and the rollercoaster just keeps spiraling from there. Told in such a unique, surreal voice, you don't realise you're in a serious discussion with the Author until the fog clears away momentarily. Jumping times, places and thoughts, this book took some concentration but one you'd settled in and accepted nothing it as it seems it was all too easy to read until the pages run out.

This was a love story, and sometimes it was a story about family, sometimes about writing, sometimes about sanity itself. Deeply unsettling and raw, the Author and the Kid have no names but give voices to the voiceless - to victims of police brutality, racism and hatred that countless people face but still isn't talked about. This story forces you to think about the world you see, and the world you don't, but more importantly how the world is going to be when you leave it.

Blending harsh reality with dream-like absurdity, Mott has created something altogether intruiging and unforgettable. Almost impossible to explain or categorise, but it was definitely a hell of a book.

RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Thank you to Jason Mott, Orion and Netgalley for this ARC in return for an honest review.

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