DiSemblance
Jason Tanner’s life has always been different from the ordinary citizen’s. It started when he was an infant and his parents were only teenagers. A computer science prodigy, Lloyd attended MIT but left a pariah in the eyes of the school’s dean—but a computer physics genius in the eyes of his primary investor. Then his theories and ideas created a holographic machine and their world shrunk as contact with the outside world became less and less frequent. A computer prodigy now himself, Jason is about to learn that the world never waits for you if you have the ability to change it: it will come for you.
Detective Bruce Durante has been handed the case of the Comfort Killer, a serial killer so named because he appears to abduct terminally ill patients before returning their corpses to their families in refrigerated coffins. When he picks up the trail, it leads straight to the home of Lloyd Tanner.
Jason has been living life through the world of Lloyd’s invention and wishing he could carry on a relationship with Boston, the beautiful girl next door. When his father is murdered and framed as the Comfort Killer, he is brought back to reality in a hurry. He is forced to destroy all of the planted evidence—and finds he is being targeted as the killer’s new fall guy. But the secrets of his father’s invention run deep and Jason, his brother Isaac,Boston, the Comfort Killer, and Detective Durante hurtle towards one another on a deadly collision course that leaves everyone’s life hanging in the balance.
Author Shanae Branham
I am a professional writer with a bachelor’s degree in creative writing and a minor in grammar. I have also attended several years of classes and workshops in screenplay writing at the Los Angeles Screenplay writer’s Expo.
I love suspense thrillers and am a master at plot and character development. I enjoy stories with happy endings. I promise all my readers that when they put one of my books down or walk away from one of my movies, they will be enthused with excitement and joy. This does not mean there will not be some sad parts, because you have to feel the bitter in order to understand the sweet. In fact, I have struggled with Dyslexia my whole life, so you can imagine how overjoyed I was when DiSemblance won a Silver metal in the fantasy/science fiction category at the eLit awards in 2012.
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Excerpt:
“…Does
having a copy of your dead mother around bother you?”
No one
had ever asked him that before. It felt good to talk about it. “It’s confusing.”
Jason looked into Boston’s
eyes. The warmth and concern he saw there was mesmerizing. “I don’t think Isaac
believes mom’s dead. I don’t use that
program because it doesn’t feel right.”
“It
would bother me, too,” she paused. “What do you do all day?”
“Excuse
me?” Jason was not offended by the question. In fact, it felt good to have
someone take an interest in him.
“You
don’t go to public school.”
“I
already got my GED.”
“Is that
it?”
“What do
you mean?”
“Is that
all you want from your life?”
Jason had
never thought about it like that. “Why? Everything I could ever want is inside
the hologram machine.”
“I’m
not.”
Her
words were like an arrow to his heart. She stepped closer, and he blushed as a
black convertible loaded with teenage girls drove up and parked on the side of
the street.
“Hey, Boston,” the driver called
out.
“I’m
coming,” Boston
waved at her friends. Then she turned back to Jason. “By the way, I broke up
with Ricky today.”
Jason
felt like he had stepped in front of a moving truck. By the time he recovered
his wits enough to speak, she had already jumped into the convertible, and they
had peeled out, disappearing down the road.
My Review: ****--4 Stars. Wow!! I hate to begin a review that way, but I was really blown away. Jason and his brother, Isaac, have been sheltered from the world by their eccentric genius of a father, especially since their mother passed away years earlier. They have a holodeck, where they can escape to, and they do often. A DC (digital copy) of their mother resides in there and Isaac seems to live more in that fake world than in the real one. When things start to go wrong, Jason is on the run to find out what's really real and how to fix things.
This is definitely the kind of book you want to pay attention to while reading. There were times where I was completely lost as to what was reality. Two stories merged when a detective and his team are on the hunt for a serial killer--The Comfort Killer--and they end up at Jason's house. I would have liked to see a few of these more minor characters developed a little bit more, just because I liked them.
I can't imagine shouldering the amount of responsibility that Jason had while I was 17. He had quite the job of trying to keep his brother grounded, while protecting everything his father had worked so hard for. I thought it was interesting that even though he spent so much time in this fake worlds, it was even hard for him to distinguish the real from the fake.
I thought this was a great read with a lot of original elements.
Content: two near attacks on a girl; violence; murders. Nothing was overly graphic.
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