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Diary of the Displaced - The Last to Fall (The Travels of Joseph Dean #1)
by
Glynn James (Goodreads Author)
In 1926 Joseph Dean was just getting ready to hang himself when the man named Joshua stepped into his cafe and changed his life.
He made Joe an offer - one that would mean travelling through the door to another world to find something that had been lost for nearly two hundred years.
Joe would discover a lot more than that in the years that followed.
The Last to Fall is a Dark...more
He made Joe an offer - one that would mean travelling through the door to another world to find something that had been lost for nearly two hundred years.
Joe would discover a lot more than that in the years that followed.
The Last to Fall is a Dark...more
Kindle Edition, 56 pages
Published
July 11th 2011
(first published May 12th 2011)
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One book in a series of books that have left me wanting more from the very beginning. The Last to Fall is a short story, told in the perspective of a father talking to his son, only the way this is written the reader is the son. Often times the storyteller interrupts his story to answer a question that might have been on your mind. It is written amazingly well in that regard, though in the fist few pages I kept expecting the son to be asking the questions. I quickly found myself "in character" a...more
**WARNING: DO NOT DO NOT read this book if you HAVE NOT read the previous 2 books in the series**
AUTHOR: Glynn James is a "crescendo" at its best! The man is brilliant. If you read reviews that I have written on "any" books in my Goodreads/LibraryThing catalog, you should know that I do not waste words. The sign of a great writer is a person that writes a series and you want to choke him/her for not continuing. Oh Glynn dearest, GIVE ME MORE OF THIS SERIES or I'LL HANG YA'!
SYNOPSIS – The Maw fro...more
AUTHOR: Glynn James is a "crescendo" at its best! The man is brilliant. If you read reviews that I have written on "any" books in my Goodreads/LibraryThing catalog, you should know that I do not waste words. The sign of a great writer is a person that writes a series and you want to choke him/her for not continuing. Oh Glynn dearest, GIVE ME MORE OF THIS SERIES or I'LL HANG YA'!
SYNOPSIS – The Maw fro...more
Glynn James has done it again! The Last to Fall (The Travels of Joseph Dean) is a fascinating glimpse into another, fascinating world that is somehow linked to our own. The world is devastated, desolate, and ruined, full of danger and malevolent creatures. Joe Dean, the protagonist, is a stranger who has made this dusty and barren world his own. The story unfolds via conversations with his son, as he reveals that he is from another world and flashes back to a mission he accepted from a stranger...more
Last to Fall: The Travels of Joseph Dean #1
Glynn James' weird, interconnected stories have really only been getting better and better with each new story, and with the third installment, Last to Fall: The Travels of Joseph Dean #1, there is also a sense of the beginning of a resolution.The last strong reference to the Texan Joe Dean in Chasing Spirits is to the noose Reg finds hanging from the ceiling of their old cafe, though Reg is oddly certain that Joe didn't hang himself. Instead, we open o...more
Glynn James' weird, interconnected stories have really only been getting better and better with each new story, and with the third installment, Last to Fall: The Travels of Joseph Dean #1, there is also a sense of the beginning of a resolution.The last strong reference to the Texan Joe Dean in Chasing Spirits is to the noose Reg finds hanging from the ceiling of their old cafe, though Reg is oddly certain that Joe didn't hang himself. Instead, we open o...more
Book 3 in the Diary of the Displaced series, The Last To Fall, tells the story of Joseph Dean & his unusual assignment to find out what happened on another world to the last of the humans there. Discovered on the verge of ending his life in the London Café, from book 2, Joe is given a unique opportunity to join the Resistance, who are fighting an otherworldly creature of pure evil. Granted immortality by his recruiter, Joshua, Joe trains rigorously to fulfill his new purpose in life, even th...more
The Last Fall is a short pocket-book story based on an intriguing premise that could have been a fascinating novel had the author developed the theme fully. As it is, the flat, uninspiring narrative reads like a well-developed synopsis. The reader is left with many unanswered and frustrating questions. The reader could have coped with this had the story been driven by a strong plot and powerful characterization. Unfortunately, Joseph is colorless and lifeless, as is the story itself.
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This is the third in the Diary of the Displaced series, and once again it is a very well written, imaginative story. Joseph Dean, the narrator, had a small mention in 'Chasing Spirits' and in 'The Last to Fall', he describes his own journey to the world in which he now lives and his purpose there.
One of the strengths of this series is that the settings created by Glynn James are completely convincing and while too many details can be the undoing of some authors, in this book (as in the others)...more
One of the strengths of this series is that the settings created by Glynn James are completely convincing and while too many details can be the undoing of some authors, in this book (as in the others)...more
Fascinating and mesmerizing! The story keeps getting better and better.
Joseph Dean comes from our world, but he has chosen a mission in an alternative world when he finds himself with nothing left lose.
The author does another splendid job of storytelling as the narrator tells his son of his adventures across an invisible thresh hold to another world. These books that Glynn James writes know how to captivate my attention and pull me into the story. He does a fantastic job of painting a vivid pi...more
Joseph Dean comes from our world, but he has chosen a mission in an alternative world when he finds himself with nothing left lose.
The author does another splendid job of storytelling as the narrator tells his son of his adventures across an invisible thresh hold to another world. These books that Glynn James writes know how to captivate my attention and pull me into the story. He does a fantastic job of painting a vivid pi...more
I may have read these in the wrong order - this was the first Glynn James I read, & I was pretty much hooked from the first page. Colourful, larger than life characters in extraordinary situations kept me wanting more - I would have been happy if this book was twice as long.
Told in the form of a conversation between a man and his son, it kept the pages turning and the suspense high.
The story within a story - the last to fall of the title - was fascinating - & I'd love to see what happen...more
Told in the form of a conversation between a man and his son, it kept the pages turning and the suspense high.
The story within a story - the last to fall of the title - was fascinating - & I'd love to see what happen...more
Joseph is down on his luck and running a little dive bar in London. When he feels he can’t go on, he decides to hang himself. As he is making preparations, a guy, Joshua, walks into the bar and asks if he needs some help. From there they start talking and Joshua offers Joseph a job. Realizing there is nothing left for Joseph, he agrees.
Joseph is then taking to another planet and taught about the history and inhabitants of the planet. This is one of the dead planets that Nua’Lath has killed with...more
Joseph is then taking to another planet and taught about the history and inhabitants of the planet. This is one of the dead planets that Nua’Lath has killed with...more
I hope there is another story coming in the series. I need to read who comes out of the vault. I loved this series. It was completely different from what I usually read.
Joseph has an honest discussion with his son about how he came to be on that planet. He explains to his son how his job is to gather as much information for the resistance. He is also waiting for the door to a vault containing 35 million survivors to open after 235 years.
Joseph has an honest discussion with his son about how he came to be on that planet. He explains to his son how his job is to gather as much information for the resistance. He is also waiting for the door to a vault containing 35 million survivors to open after 235 years.
I can't put my finger on it, but something about this story just really interested me, in a way I can't describe.
It was just really interesting, and I want to read more.
It was just really interesting, and I want to read more.
Is it really weird that I want to read this, mostly because the main character shares the same name as my boyfriend's father?
I think it is, but I'm still gonna read it.
I think it is, but I'm still gonna read it.
Loved this third book in the Diary of the Displaced series...I recommend it if you've read the first two.
This novella ties together some things from the books. It's good in its own right, but you should probably read the other book first. I recommend the whole series. I'm looking forward to where everything is going and how everything interconnects. I only wished this was a longer story!
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I'm mad about horror, fantasy, dystopian, apocalyptic, and scifi and everything in between.
Oh and Roald Dahl :)
I also like a lot of YA dystopian /apocalyptic stuff even though being a YA myself ended a LONG time ago.
Now I feel old and grumpy.
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Oh and Roald Dahl :)
I also like a lot of YA dystopian /apocalyptic stuff even though being a YA myself ended a LONG time ago.
Now I feel old and grumpy.
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