Title: Bloodeye
Author: Craig Saunders
Genre: Dark Fiction, Horror
Age Group: Adult
Rating: 3,5 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
Keane Reid is tired of living. He’s bored with his very existence following the suspicious death of his wife seven years earlier. He’s not interested in TV, reading, dating or a social life.
But when he is called on a routine plumbing job at a local pub, he discovers the corpse of a young girl crucified and nailed to a wall, her eyes torn out and a third eye carved into her forehead. Keane has seen this mark before, and soon his life is thrust between the present and past, reality and fantasy, darkness and light.
As Keane loses his grip on sanity, a long-forgotten shadow begins whispering to him once again, ushering him toward the void, where the ghosts of his past reside, waiting to show him what truly lies behind the veil.
Bloodeye started out as a straightforward book, but as the story progressed, it got increasingly complicated. Keane Reid, our protagonist, is tired of living after the death of his wife seven years ago. He struggles with depression, and every task feels too difficult.
Then he gets called to a routine plumbing job, where he discovers the corpse of a young girl crucified and nailed to a wall, her eyes torn out, a third one carved into her forehead. Keane has seen this mark before, and the last time, things ended disastrous. Will this time be any different?
We get two seperate storylines, past (seven years ago, focusing on Keane and his wife) and the present. Keane is a complicated man, struggling with reality and fantasy, walking the border of insanity and sometimes plunging in. The descent into madness from the main character was impressive, and although I struggled to figure out what was real or delusion, it was an interesting struggle, and I didn’t mind having to guess.
However, at times, there’s just too little information, and I was confused every now and then. The book could’ve been better if we’d been giving a handful of clues as to what was going on, as opposed to almost no clues. The writing was of exceptional quality though, and reading this book worked almost like shifting through a hallucination.
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