{4.5\/5} “My success came by standing on the shoulders of someone I hadn’t even liked, who had expressly forbidden me from doing what I did. On his death bed.”<\/p>\n
Finn’s wife Lorena was struck by lightning and died two years ago. Now he’s trying to date again, but it’s tough. Finn is a cartoonist — he resurrected his grandather’s comic trip “Toy Shop.” The strip is doing better than ever, but his grandfather explicitly told him that he didn’t want him to continue it. After a terrorist attack with anthrax hits Atlanta hard, Finn starts blurting things out that he can’t control\u00a0— he has a hitcher.<\/p>\n
Hitchers<\/strong> by Will McIntosh was published earlier this year.<\/p>\n It’s a serious treatment of the concept that dead people could co-inhabit the bodies of living people. In addition to Finn, Lorena,\u00a0and\u00a0Finn’s grandfather the other main characters are Mick, an aging rock star, Gilly, his former collaborator (who’s dead),\u00a0and Summer, a waitress.<\/p>\n This is a fabulous story — its uniqueness will keep you reading. You’ll care about what happens to the characters, the living and the dead.<\/p>\n There are a few examples of Finn’s “Toy Shop” comic strip\u00a0within\u00a0the book.<\/p>\n McIntosh is also the author of Soft Apocalpyse<\/strong>, which I rated 5\/5. I published two of his stories in Challenging Destiny<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {4.5\/5} “My success came by standing on the shoulders of someone I hadn’t even liked, who had expressly forbidden me from doing what I did. On his death bed.” Finn’s wife Lorena was struck by lightning and died two years ago. Now he’s trying to date again, but it’s tough. Finn is a cartoonist — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,9,28,5],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-fantasy","tag-novels","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1842,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}