Road Seven

By: Keith Rosson

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Mark Sandoval - resolutely arrogant, covered head to foot in precise geometric scarring, and still marginally famous after Hollywood made an Oscar-winner based off his memoir years before - has been strongly advised by his lawyer to leave the country following a drunken and potentially fatal hit and run. When a woman sends Sandoval grainy footage of what appears to be a unicorn, he quickly hires an assistant and the two head off to the woman's farm in Hvildarland, a tiny, remote island off the coast of Iceland. When they arrive on the island and discover that both a military base and the surrounding álagablettur, the nearby woods, are teeming with strangeness and secrets, they begin to realize that a supposed unicorn sighting is the least of their worries.

©2020 Keith Rosson (P)2020 Tantor

Not what was summarized

According to the summary and description labels, I was looking forward to a proper fantasy. But unfortunately I have to say I was disappointed. This isn't a bad book but not the right category**spoiler alert**
It was more of a conspiracy/mystery with some troubled characters. I've read plenty of those and wanted a change but didn't get it

Bless Rosson's Lovecraftian Bleeding Heart

How do they char those pinecones? 10 stars. Brian and Sandoval's Monsters Icelandia. A perfect literary blend of horror, humanism, love, evil, failure, family and terror.

Gritty layered fun

I’ve been loving Keith Rosson. Partly because I live in Portland and enjoy experiencing it through someone else’s eyes and laden with fantasy, but also because of the absurd and creative storylines, engaging writing style, and multilayered characters. This book was just as good the others I’ve listened to, I just wish it had been longer.

Great characters in a mysterious landscape

Keith Rosson is fast becoming one of my favorite authors! His storytelling is punchy and direct, and his characters are fully formed and sympathetic. Treat yourself to an emerging star!

It was good but limited

I enjoyed this book and it is worth your time. It's not great but might have been with a better ending. At first I was kind of put off by how much time Rosson spent with teh characters and their development but this definitely grew on me as the story went on. As I'm finding in some of his other books, the characters are his primary focus; the action/horror is kind of secondary. And, frankly, he tends to give it short shrift, as he does in this book, even though the horror premise is pretty good. It's not new or unique but he still sets it up well. Having done that though, he hurries through the ending and it is definitely unsatisfying. I fear the same is going to happen in the one I am currently reading. Frankly, given the focus on character - and how much of it takes place outside the horror aspects of the book - he might be better just moving away from the horror component completely.