The Mentor - Lee Mathew Goldberg (Book Tour)
10 years. 10 years spent on creating the next great American novel. 10 years of pouring his heart and soul into an opus that will transcend the literary world. Every word has meaning, eliciting emotion and taking the reader into his world, enveloping them in his masterpiece. 10 years. That is what Dr. William Lansing had spent crafting his novel and it was almost complete. And as if the gods themselves had smiled upon his work, Dr. Lansing’s former mentee was just featured as the next big editor for Burke and Burke, having just landed a new up-and-coming author, signing her book and a movie deal for $1 million. But apparently, the stars weren’t aligned exactly how Dr. Lansing had planned. His mentee did not appreciate his literary genius, and for that, Kyle might pay the ultimate price.
The Mentor by Lee Matthew Goldberg takes us on a deep dive into obsession, jealousy, and madness. It examines what exactly someone is willing to do to ink that big deal. And how far one is willing to go to keep a secret buried or dig it up. It explores what happens when art imitates life to potentially horrifying results where no one is safe, and an artist will stop at nothing to complete his masterpiece as it unfolds in real-time. How far would you be willing to go for that kind of immortality?
I liked this one. It gave me something that I was not expecting. The characters were well developed, and the plot wasn’t too predictable. Quite a few times the story took a turn that was not expected. Goldberg did a fantastic job of creating and developing characters that the reader could get behind. He also did a great job of creating and sustaining the tension and suspense throughout the book. When a chapter finished with a solution, another crisis was waiting on the next page waiting for the reader to run down that rabbit hole. As Dr. Lansing’s plot unfolds, both in The Mentor and his personal manuscript, I found it hard to stop reading and had to see what was next.
That brings me to what I may like most in this book. I am not sure I have read another book written in this way. We see the plot of the main story unfold through the writing of Dr. Lansing in his book The Devil’s Hopyard, his opus that he is trying to shop to his mentee. It’s almost like The Princess Bride in that sense. I honestly could not come up with another horror book that flowed the way this book did. The jumps between characters and storylines did not take away from the storytelling at all, and readers will be invested in all aspects of the tale. I highly recommend this for a quick read with some really disturbing pieces and a peek into the mind of madness.
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