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Jul 26, 2016EKGO rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Kitty lives in Denver in the ‘60’s and owns a bookstore with her friend. Something Wicked This Way Comes has just been released. At night, however, Kitty becomes Katherine in her dreams and her life is as different as possible from her quiet bookish existence. As her day life and dream life begin to vie for prominence, Kitty is forced to question reality and the effects of trauma on one's psyche. It’s funny how many of the things referenced in this story aren’t there anymore. Rocky Mountain News. Vogue theater. MayD&F! “Monkey” Wards. Stapleton Airport. There’s still a bookstore, though: http://southpearlstreet.com/merchants/ Here’s where Kitty lives, in general. Her fictional street would be here: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6593694,-104.952828,16.75z Since I live near Denver, I had fun remembering things I'd forgotten, looking up areas, trying to figure out where she was and what she was seeing. I don't know that this will matter as much to readers not familiar with the area. I was a little thrown out of the story by the over-exuberant commentary on racism. The kid next door talks about Willie Mayes and how the color of his skin shouldn’t matter, it’s his skills as a baseball player that are important. At a dream party, Katherine expounds on how uncomfortable she is with colored help and then thinks to herself that she was raised to go out of her way to treat non-white people the same as she treats white people, her dad worked with black people and her mom took care of babies of all colors, etc. While these revelations are not wrong, the method in which they are delivered is forced and it made me hyper-aware that I was reading a story, rather than experiencing it. All in all, I think many will enjoy this book, especially those who have a more than passing familiarity with Denver. The premise is intriguing, it's written well enough, but there are going to be some readers, like me, who grow frustrated and bored with the story before it ends.