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Ok, I admit it - when it comes to UFO's, aliens, alien abduction, Men in Black, and X-Files you can count me as all in.
So when I hear that this book contains elements of crop circles, magnetic fields, Bermuda Triangle-like disappearances and reappearances, and erased memories - I immediately am thinking of beams of lights, implants, and little green (or grey) men.
But sometimes the truth can be found right where you are standing (well, maybe just a few miles underneath where you are standing).
You see, all of this time we have been looking to the skies and stars. According to S. M. Coan’s fantasy world of Innerearth, we would have been better off to watch dolphins and bats.
Have I confused you yet? Coan is able to weave a story that is both original and puts an unique spin on what “believers” have accepted as psuedo-fact - that to find intelligent life, we must look to the stars.
The main character in the story, Chris Falconer, was an enlisted man in the Air Force that had to get out and become a surveyor after falling ill and going into a coma nine years earlier. But then Chris is recruited to become a member of “the council” and learns that he is what is considered to be a “Red File.” A Red File is a person who vanishes without explanation. Some return, but have no recollection of anything that has happened.
Chris is given his “Red File” to look over, only to find that there is a gap of five years, he was an Air Force Major who flew jets, and vanished somewhere over the ocean. To try and rediscover his past, Chris agrees to join “the council”. Instead of being the hunter for the truth, Chris finds himself being used as bait and winds up on a “three hour tour” on a boat that even Gilligan wouldn’t believe.
I found this book to be a good paced read with some plot lines that I hadn’t come across before. I like fantasy and science fiction, but it has to have some “meat” in it and be original in some facet to really draw me in. "Innerearth" has both. S.M. Coan didn’t take a well trodden path that he knew from heart. Instead he tackled a whole new world with some difficult plot lines and characters.
I don’t want to give much away, but the descriptions that Coan uses for characters that don’t have physical forms are excellent. In a book like this, the author could have easily been sidetracked so much by the new world that they created that they fail to move the story along. Coan does an excellent job of description and pacing to keep the readers attention.
If you are a fan of intellectual science fiction, then this book should be on your list.
(this review was part of a paid ad, which only gave the author 'front of the line' privileges, but in no way influenced this review.)
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