David Dolo - Hü (Self, 2018) **½

This is a very strange and bizarre story. It is a nightmare. Francis, a young man, gets out of the subway train and walks in the dark to the end of the tunnel where he ends up in a strange country with no references to his previous world, and taken prisoner by a highly unfriendly creature with a bag over his head.

There is no escape, and completely at the mercy of the unfriendly man, he tries to devise plans to save his own life, because it's clear that the stakes are high.

The writing is good, but the story is too long, and Francis' ordeal is maybe emphasised by this, but then what. Because it's a fantasy novel, anything might happen. It's a mirror of our world, with power struggles, loyalties, creativity and new alliances. In that sense it may give the reader some base for reflection. Some events in the novel are so strong and brutal that it is a memorable book after all.

If you like to be out of your comfort zone, I can recommend it. Otherwise, you don't miss anything by not reading it either.