{"id":5911,"date":"2018-12-05T17:40:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T21:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=5911"},"modified":"2018-12-05T17:40:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T21:40:58","slug":"book-review-the-mind-altar-a-novel-of-subterranean-terror-by-michael-just","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/book-review-the-mind-altar-a-novel-of-subterranean-terror-by-michael-just\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Mind Altar: A Novel of Subterranean Terror by Michael Just"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Mind Altar: A Novel of Subterranean Terror<\/em> by Michael Just<\/p>\n

Giddings Street Press, 2018<\/p>\n

ISBN 13:9781530441297<\/p>\n

Available: Paperback, Kindle edition<\/p>\n

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The Mind Altar: A Novel of Subterranean Terror<\/em> by Michael Just is head and shoulders above most novels in the science fiction, horror and mystery genres. The author describes scenes in just the right amount of detail to place the reader within the story.\u00a0 He reveals the personalities and motives of the characters gradually, keeping the reader engaged.\u00a0 His plot has twists and turns that keep the reader continually guessing about the story\u2019s outcome.\u00a0 The ending is no less complicated and intriguing, seemingly doubling back on itself three times.<\/p>\n

Taking place in the near future, the U.S. government sends a team of black-ops mercenaries to the desert in the Four Corners region of the country.\u00a0 Communications with a secret facility buried in a mountain, called Bright Angel, went dead a few weeks earlier.\u00a0 Each of the seven-team members has a special skill, and knows only part of their mission.\u00a0 Our protagonist, Eurydice Wiles, is an expert in resurrecting programs and data from crashed computers.\u00a0 She is buttoned up, avoids emotional contact and has no memories from the age of seven to eight.<\/p>\n

As Eury and her teammates explore the myriad of Bright Angel\u2019s rooms and caverns, they discover hollowed-out, plasticized bodies with no heads, preserved brains cut in-half, and dozens of crisp, burned bodies.\u00a0 All computer hard drives have been smashed.\u00a0 Eury intuits that the entire tunneled mountain is a computer and that ghostly visions and voices are part of its programs.\u00a0 Did the staff and inmates go mad and kill each other?\u00a0 One-by-one the team members are dying.\u00a0 What will Eury and the other survivors find when they get to the Mind Altar at the heart of the mountain? Highly recommended.<\/p>\n

Contains: Mild sexual situations, moderate gore.<\/p>\n

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Reviewed by Robert D. Yee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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