Review - To Nowhere by C.E. Wilson

Okay, I’ll be the first to admit, science fiction novels…not usually my thing.  I’ve read a few and liked them but generally, on a whole, I wouldn’t pick one up.  However, I’m trying to change that. 

So recently, I’ve been doing a lot of reviews on different books and trying to get back into the habit of picking something up off the shelves that’s different and unique.  I want something that I wouldn’t usually read so that I can broaden my genres a bit.  So when C.E. Wilson contacted me to review her latest novel, I was more than happy to give it a try.

I’m glad I did.

C.E. Wilson weaves a tale of, what feels like, old school sci-fi in a modern/alternate reality.  She tells the story of a young woman, Lyris, who is still in school and essentially trying to figure out her life.  She’s moved to a brand new town, she doesn’t know anyone, and her parents are professors at the local college and seem rarely to be home.

All that changes when she meets a rather handsome young man by the name of Wyatt.  Suddenly she’s hanging out with him, talking to him, and beginning to grow what seems to equal out to a very serious relationship with him.  Wyatt even takes her on a tour of the local “haunted” house…located right across the road from where she lives. However Wyatt warns her of one thing.  He tells her to NEVER enter a specific room within the house without him.  He won’t tell her why, just that she should never enter alone.

Of course what’s a girl like her to do?  She just HAS to explore it!

As soon as she does though, she wishes she hadn’t.  I won’t give you any major spoilers to this, but I will tell you one very important thing.  GIANTS.

A retelling of BFG (Big, Friendly Giant – check Roald Dahl), this isn’t!

I wasn’t expecting to care about the characters as much as I ended up caring!  I also wasn’t expecting the levels of emotions brought forth within this book.  There’s lust, fear, and an odd mixture of companionship and love that actually goes very well with the tone of the book.  Oh…and Wyatt?  Yeah he has a MAJOR secret going on. 

All in all, I really did enjoy this novel.  If I had to pick one thing from the book that I really didn’t care for, it would have to be that the lead character isn’t as strong as I would have liked her to be and I find that she exhibits a very confusing array of emotions when it comes to things she has to deal with.  Otherwise, I found the book very well written and easy to read through.  I would readily pick it up and read it again at any given time.  The storyline and the characters ended up sticking with me for days on end and I won’t ever regret getting caught up in this crazy new world C.E. Wilson has created!

If you’d like to purchase this book, you can find it at: 

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Also if you’ve picked this book up already, please let me know what you thought in the comments below!  Thanks again for taking time to read my review and, as always, “Spread the joy of reading.  Lives can change with a turn of a page!”

Thanks guys!