THE INVASION OF HEAVEN (The Newirth Mythology #1) by Michael B. Koep
✯✯✯✯ Review by Astrid Galactic
Surreal? Dreamscape? Hallucinations? Psyop? Gaslighting?
Counter-transference? A story of patsies? Delusions? The Invasion Of Heaven (Part One of the Newirth Mythology) by Michael B. Koep is all of these and then some. It
is also a mystery which is the main premise of the book.
Dr. Loche Newirth becomes embroiled in a very
confusing and surreal situation when a patient of his commits suicide. As her
psychologist, this is devastating for him as well as gets him involved for
professional reasons. Loche's close friend and confidante, Dr. Marcus Rearden,
is also whom he sees for professional counseling. Psychiatric professionals
must keep up with ongoing counseling to help keep them in check. After many
years of this, trust is developed as well as a certain sort of dependence and camaraderie.
Marcus becomes a sounding board within the book as well as the person Loche
trusts to help him understand what's going on during this jumble of
inter-dimensional worlds that aren't always making sense to Loche.
We start out with Loche coming out of what
seems to be a fall into a lake. A deep, blue lake that is hypnotic in its
description. This type of imagery is common throughout the book. Very much like
a rabbit hole one has fallen into only to visit various layers of truths or
realities. You'll have to be the judge on that. In some ways, the book is like
looking into an infinity mirror only to get stuck in trying to figure out what
is going on in any given reflection. Yet, all are related to the others in some
quantum level of sorts.
Early on, Loche meets a man, Basil, whom he
discovers is his long lost brother. Coincidentally, he's also his wife's
ex-boyfriend. Basil is a world respected artist who creates paintings that
reveal various difficult truths to its viewers which can be deadly. Because of
that, he doesn't allow others to view his works. Eventually, Basil becomes his
art.
The entire book goes way off the deep end in a
world that may or may not exist. Because of that, it's not for one who only
wants some light reading to help put them to sleep at night or for those not
interested in having to work too hard to understand what is going on. On the
other hand, if you like books that get deeply involved with mind games, other
realms of existence, and thought provoking concepts, the book will take you for
a ride that will have your mind spinning. Personally, I tend to fall into the
latter class, so I enjoyed getting lost in Koep's psychedelic world of
adventure, mystery and intrigue.
The only real issue that I had was that I
found it too unbelievable that Loche so easily believed and accepted new family
relations in his life and what had happened to them. (Yet, I was all in with
the various mind flips laced throughout the book. Go figure!)
In some respects, it was a bit of an Alice In
Wonderland for adult males, though we ladies can enjoy it too.
Fiction
Sci-Fi
Paperback, 416 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0997623406
Publisher: Will Dreamly Arts
Release Date: Reprint edition - August 30, 2016
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