Roberta Writes – Halloween Book Festival: Glimpses by Hugh W. Roberts

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Today, I am delighted to featured Glimpses by Hugh W. Roberts.

What Amazon says

After publishing some of his short stories on his blog, Hugh W. Roberts, who is dyslexic, received numerous requests to publish his short stories in a book.

Here, at last, are 28 short stories that will take your mind on a roller coaster of a ride into worlds that conceal unexpected twists and turns.

My review

I found Glimpses by Hugh W. Roberts to be quite a unique book. It is a collection of short stories, mainly written along a supernatural theme. I am a great lover of supernatural and horror books and have been avidly reading Stephen King since I was ten years old, so this was right up my street. I had two absolute favourite stories/groupings of stories in this lovely book. My outright favourite was The Truth App which I read twice. It is a collection of a few short stories all in the same theme and it really “creeped” me out. Maybe I identified with it so much because it is all about blogging and bloggers which is a world in which I have recently become very immersed. I must say that I had to stop reading this tale in the evenings because it was giving me bad dreams. My advice to bloggers and other readers of this book, be careful what apps you choose to download!

My other outright winner was a short story about a woman who goes to India to have eye and dental treatment. This one stayed firmly in my mind because it made me reflect on the fact that, even if you read the completely incomprehensible list of ingredients on cosmetic and facial and other products, one rarely has any idea of what really goes into that cream that you are liberally apply all over your face. It also summoned up horrible thoughts of articles that I have read recently about testing medications and products on animals. A story that can make you think like that has got to be superb.

I found rating this book a huge conundrum because five star rating doesn’t allow for much scope with rating. I actually don’t really like this limited system. I finally settled on four out of five because I really enjoyed this book but I have rated my favourite Stephen King books five out of five, namely, The Stand, The Shining and The Dead Zone. These are lengthily novels which gives the writer a lot more scope to flesh out the characters and his ideas and story line. It felt reasonable to give Glimpses four out of five on this comparative basis. I would recommend this book but, perhaps, don’t read it at night when you are home alone.

Amazon US purchase link: https://www.amazon.com/Glimpses-Hugh-W-Roberts-ebook/dp/B01N757S3P

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  6. This looks right up my street! I’ve bought so many books this month between you and Teri’s Bad Moon Rising, lols 😂 And it looks like I’m buying this one as well!
    Wishing Hugh all the best.
    Thanks for sharing, Robbie. Fair warning, though … my TBR is growling at both of us from its dark corner! 🎃
    Hugs 🤗💕🙂

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  14. I too dislike the star rating system. A list of words to choose from–Great!, Just OK, Don’t Bother, Good with Qualifiers–something like that would be much better. Feelings about a book are seldom so clear cut, at least mine aren’t. (K)

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  15. Thanks so much for featuring Hugh’s short stories here, Robbie. Although I follow Hugh’s blog, I didn’t know about this collection. Your rating system is reasonable. And I will take your advice to read this during daylight hours 😉

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  16. Thanks for your insightful review, Robbie, and Congrats to Hugh! This book might be a bit scary for me. I’m not much into horror or supernatural stories. The blogging story would definitely creep me out. And if I choose to read this, I’ll make sure daylight is a factor. 🙂

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