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Thalo Blue

by Jason McIntyre (Goodreads Author) (author)

4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 · rating details · 32 ratings · 11 reviews

A young man on the brink of true adulthood experiences the trauma of his life when a trespasser breaks into his home. Sebastion Redfield and the psychiatrist assigned to help him recover from the break-in begin to unravel a more disturbing truth about his ordeal: that someone or some thing has been hunting him.

Published 2011

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May 01, 2011 Darcia Helle rated it 5 of 5 stars

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This is an intricately woven tale rich in imagery. If I had to classify the genre, I'd say it's a psychological thriller with a paranormal twist. Yet, the depth of the characters, the emotions they both experience and evoke in the reader, and the issues explored within the plot makes it impossible to limit this story to any specific genre.

Thalo Blue is not an easy or a fast read. The story requires commitment from the reader. Skimming over the descriptions would be a loss of something almost ta...more

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Aug 05, 2011 EZRead eBookstore rated it 5 of 5 stars

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I had the unusual fortune of getting to write a “pre-release” review of “THALO BLUE” before it hits an eBookstore near you. As such, pretty much anything I say will be a spoiler alert, so I’m going to try and be as careful as a brain surgeon here. You may proceed.

“THALO BLUE” is by far Jason McIntyre’s most complex, multi-layered, and disturbing work. This is no beach book that doubles as a convenient Frisbee, but an intense “thinker” that requires your full attention. Part noir mystery and part...more I had the unusual fortune of getting to write a “pre-release” review of “THALO BLUE” before it hits an eBookstore near you. As such, pretty much anything I say will be a spoiler alert, so I’m going to try and be as careful as a brain surgeon here. You may proceed.

“THALO BLUE” is by far Jason McIntyre’s most complex, multi-layered, and disturbing work. This is no beach book that doubles as a convenient Frisbee, but an intense “thinker” that requires your full attention. Part noir mystery and part art house, Jason’s style is dense and totally his own; I still haven’t read anything that comes close to it. There is a deliberate messiness that forces you to pick through the realities and unrealities of each narrator, to remember character histories and terrible deaths. Simply put, I’m not recommending to my mom; this one is for the book hounds like myself.

“THALO BLUE” starts out-of-focus and slow, as you try to situate yourself in the plot and understand the characters. It really does begin to build up, to the point where you are halfway through and completely immersed. Even to the last page I was either dying because I wanted answers, or because the plot was too intense. So I was dying twice. The things that can be frustrating in the beginning of the novel you learn to love later, like the lengthy descriptions of Sebastion’s gift to “see” colors. Finishing the book is the only way to step back and see the novel as a whole picture, and it is “WOW” complex.

Some of McIntyre’s creations in “THALO” exploded my mind, but in particular his “Thief” character. It’s a person-but-not-a-person, and I won’t say more than that. It’s scary, imaginative, deeply messed up, and even part sci-fi or supernatural.

I can’t even conceive how many sticky notes and plot outlines it took to write “THALO BLUE”. Speaking from a generation of people using Spark Notes and accustomed to sugary NYT Bestsellers, “THALO BLUE” is completely refreshing and original. For once, a book that doesn’t believe its primary audience is kindergarteners and chimpanzees.

You go, Jason McIntyre. Keep being your dark, messed up self.

-EZ Read Staffer Jenifer

(Don't forget to check out our video discussion about "THALO BLUE": http://vimeo.com/19680817)

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Mar 14, 2011 Genna Sarnak rated it 4 of 5 stars

Jason McIntyre’s latest novel, THALO BLUE, is absolutely frightening, but in a way that I loved!

Hauntingly well-written and masterfully crafted, THALO BLUE is primary about Sebastion “Zeb” Redfield, a troubled artist on the cusp of true adulthood. The story opens as a circumspect “thief” breaks into Sebastion’s house and attacks him. While the attack seems random at first, a deeper, more complicated meaning soon surfaces and Sebastion, along with his assigned psychiatrist, must figure out what’s...more Jason McIntyre’s latest novel, THALO BLUE, is absolutely frightening, but in a way that I loved!

Hauntingly well-written and masterfully crafted, THALO BLUE is primary about Sebastion “Zeb” Redfield, a troubled artist on the cusp of true adulthood. The story opens as a circumspect “thief” breaks into Sebastion’s house and attacks him. While the attack seems random at first, a deeper, more complicated meaning soon surfaces and Sebastion, along with his assigned psychiatrist, must figure out what’s driving this monster, before it’s too late and he consumes them all. The book also delves into Sebastion’s twisted, yet beautiful, past, capturing the rawness of growing up in a candid and heart-wrenching way.

The novel, very simply put, is about the pursuit of life and happiness in the face of adversity, complicated family relationships, and the inevitability of death.

The first few pages (perhaps even the first two or three chapters) are a bit confusing and it took me a while to orient myself inside the world McIntyre creates, but that was part of what I loved about it. Sebastion’s reality is fragmented and his memories come to him in bits and pieces, and that’s exactly how they are delivered to the readers. You get only as much as Sebastion will admit and reveal to himself. Although a tad “different,” I am really drawn to Sebastion. There is something about his sensitivity to life, poetry, and sensory notions that make him both incredibly intriguing and captivating.

I truly enjoyed unraveling the events that shaped Sebastion into the man he is present day. In a way, the structure of the story reminded me a bit of the movie, Memento, mostly because of the way it intricately unfolds. Jumping from past to present, from the perspective of Sebastion to an EMT, to the infamous thief, McIntyre brilliantly weaves the narrative back and forth.

I highly recommend THALO BLUE to those who enjoy mystery, thriller, and ornately crafted stories. The characters are haunting and tend to linger long past the closing images. I will 100% be reading more from McIntyre very soon!

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Apr 01, 2011 Katie John rated it 5 of 5 stars

McIntytre’s novel 'Thalo Blue' is an example of a heavy beauty; stunning and exquisite in places, it transports you into an almost metaphysical world. We travel the novel through the eyes of Sebastion; it is a painfully beautiful, almost unbearably sensuous world but one which is equally tinged with a latent element of extreme violence. With his character, I found myself completely absorbed in the intensity of the expression and moment. Sebastion’s story is of haunting and recovery and all of th...more

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Feb 09, 2011 Giovanni Gelati rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Looking for something dark that is going to crawl into that brain pan of yours. I wasn’t to be honest with you, but I have read everything Jason McIntyre has written to date and I was not going to let anything stop me from reading this. The novel just came out on Amazon Kindle priced at $2.99, a bargain for what I feel I got of this. Oh yeah, before I forget, Jason will be stepping into The GZONE, the Gelati’s Scoop blogtalk radio show, on Feb 28th at 11amEST. If you are like me; you will have p...more
Looking for something dark that is going to crawl into that brain pan of yours. I wasn’t to be honest with you, but I have read everything Jason McIntyre has written to date and I was not going to let anything stop me from reading this. The novel just came out on Amazon Kindle priced at $2.99, a bargain for what I feel I got of this. Oh yeah, before I forget, Jason will be stepping into The GZONE, the Gelati’s Scoop blogtalk radio show, on Feb 28th at 11amEST. If you are like me; you will have plenty of questions for this guy. I am going to join his group over at The Novel Spot called The Minds of McIntyre, pretty cool name and right on the mark. Other titles by Mr. McIntyre are Road Markers, On the Gathering Storm, Shed, and The Night Walk Men. Let me stop yapping for a minute and let’s get to what is between the virtual covers, shall we:
“Sebastion Redfield is being hunted.
A young man on the brink of true adulthood, Redfield experiences the trauma of his life when a trespasser breaks into his home. The psychiatrist assigned to help him recover from the break-in begins to unravel a more disturbing truth about his ordeal: that someone or something has been hunting him.
Touted as “Jason McIntyre’s most complex, multi-layered, and disturbing work,” THALO BLUE delves into the life and times of Sebastion who, through his unique condition, may be the only person alive able to stop the mysterious "thief". This figure is unstoppable, even by death it seems, and he wants something that only Sebastion possesses. An explosive confrontation in his home during the middle of a brutal winter begins their terrifying encounter, one that will eventually stretch across a city, a township and a country.
Recovery is Sebastion’s next phase of life—and not just physical recovery but an emotional healing from a life of family drama and the burden of being ‘gifted’. Sebastion and the psychiatrist assigned to help him deal with the break-in quickly realize that the ordeal is not over. Now, to save his own life, he and the therapist must dredge up his dark, painful past for clues as to who or what the terrifying thief may be.
Part literary noir, part mystery, and part horror, THALO BLUE is sure to paralyze readers and keep them gnawing at their nails at each startling revelation.”
Serious stuff indeed! I am going to say this, enter at your own mental risk. McIntyre is quickly becoming one of my favorite go to authors. The quality of the work he produces is always first rate and the tone he sets in the novel is, for me, very moving. The emotion he is able to pull out of me as I follow the story and the characters blows my mind. Thalo Blue is your basic 159,000 word $%# kicking novel. Following Sebastion’s story, his course, what lies ahead for him, waiting to have that bomb laid down makes for one virtual page turning frenzy. Separating myself from the Kindle while I read this was not easy. I still have the images in my head that Jason McIntyre burned into my brain.
I have followed the progression of this author from digital short stories, to stories with a little larger word count to this monster of a novel. Twist, turns, concise plotlines and a dynamic voice and vision are quickly becoming his hallmark. He strikes me as a hungry, driven author that needs, no I should say deserves after reading this, a larger audience. Are you listening? Download this monster of a novel and be prepared for what you are about to read!
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Sep 11, 2011 Shivanee (Novel Niche) rated it 4 of 5 stars

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"Sebastion Redfield is terrified. If you were embroiled in the precarious circumstances that surround him at the novel’s inception, you would be, too. Ensconced in the quiet lull of a neighbourhood defined by its lack of fanfare, at rest in his parents’ house (in which neither of his parents reside, any longer, for reasons both distinct and conjoined), Sebastion’s equanimity is shattered by the intrusion of a stranger who wants to steal something far more precious...more Excerpted from the full review:

"Sebastion Redfield is terrified. If you were embroiled in the precarious circumstances that surround him at the novel’s inception, you would be, too. Ensconced in the quiet lull of a neighbourhood defined by its lack of fanfare, at rest in his parents’ house (in which neither of his parents reside, any longer, for reasons both distinct and conjoined), Sebastion’s equanimity is shattered by the intrusion of a stranger who wants to steal something far more precious than the good china. In the aftermath of the attack, Sebastion aligns himself with the unlikely company of the psychiatrist assigned to his case, Malin Holmsund, in an effort to piece together the shreds of what they know about his assailant. While struggling to connect the identity dots of his mystery marauder, our protagonist learns in startling increments of just how much he stands to lose…and of just how little he can afford to stay still.

I’d wager that Sebastion, or Zeb, which he prefers, isn’t quite like any other leading literary man I’ve read, which I count as a reinforcing strength of this work. Even (or especially) among his peers, he both suffers and benefits from perceiving the world through a synaesthete’s eyes. His sensory and colour-coded interpretation of his natural environment makes for illuminating, oft-revealing reading. As we consider shapes and scenarios in shades and hues through Zeb’s visage, we are often called on to realign our paradigms for basic sight. A man on the cusp of maturity, we witness Zeb’s formation as he grows, through the author’s use of well-placed flashbacks. Nothing Zeb does or says in his journey towards self-preservation and self-discovery feels off-kilter, perhaps because we have been allowed to take the mark of him at every significant stage of his being. The impression of a life fully formed is what remains, once the last page of the novel has been turned. We feel that we have lived with our leading man, observing the peculiar palette that has been his life up until that very moment, and our reading is all the richer for the sense of this credible roundedness."
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Jun 09, 2011 Natalie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Synopsis by Goodreads: A young man on the brink of true adulthood experiences the trauma of his life when a trespasser breaks into his home. Sebastion Redfield and the psychiatrist assigned to help him recover from the break-in begin to unravel a more disturbing truth about his ordeal: that someone or some thing has been hunting him.

I love to read anything that will scare me to death. Mystery, thrillers anything that gives me the heebie jeebies. This was by far the right book for me to pick. It...more

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Apr 28, 2011 Berit Ellingsen rated it 3 of 5 stars

Part thriller and part pshychological novel that really probes the psyche and the personal background of the main character and the side characters. Has some very tense and interesting moments.
At times the varying points of view and the delving into the past felt confusing and reduced the tension that was built, but I see why it was done that way. Nonetheless an interesting and intense read.

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Jan 28, 2013 Sheri rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Thalo Blue (Jason McInytre)

Sebastion Redfield is being hunted. After a terrifying break in and attack, Sebastion sees a psychiatrist to help him recover from this ordeal. But soon they discover this is no random attack. And what he is about to uncover is disturbing. Going from the past to present, twists and turns I was not sure what was going to happen next. I was at the edge of my seat until the very end.

An all night nail-biting psychological page turning read.Jason McIntyre knows how to get i...more

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Mar 28, 2011 Kimberly McMichael rated it 5 of 5 stars

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I loved this book. I loved the story and I loved the complicated layers of people and relationships. McIntyre is a storyteller coming into his own, and with Thalo Blue he has proven himself once again. My favorite part of this book is that I couldn't figure out the villain. I found out the what, how, and why, at the moment McIntyre was ready for me to know. That in itself is a reason to read Thalo Blue.

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Mar 30, 2011 Tabitha Turnbow rated it 5 of 5 stars

I had a hard time with this because I scare easily but it was compelling and a page turner.A very emotional novel, one I don't know if I can keep reading but need to because it is so good.

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JASON MCINTYRE is the #1 Kindle Suspense author of THE NIGHT WALK MEN, bestsellers ON THE GATHERING STORM and SHED, plus the multi-layered literary suspense THALO BLUE. His short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and won several awards.

His debut novel ON THE GATHERING STORM earned McIntyre a spot in the Top 20 Debut Authors for the Goodreads Choice Awards.

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