Shimmers:
Echoes From Another Dimension
By JF Goulding
402 Pages
Synopsis: Detective Mick Murphy has reached countless stalemates and dead ends upon his recent investigations. A chance encounter with an unorthodox sibling tandem of Oscar and Casey forever alters his path of solving crime. Together, the trio devise to manifest and conjure their inner spiritual gumshoe and forever change how evil lurks in this dimension and infinite others.
As avid readers, we all gravitate to our chosen material or genre for varying reasons. Whether expanding our collective imagination or retreating to an exotic cerebral, vicarious escape, the destination is one and the same. Fulfillment.
We all strive to attain, achieve, believe, devour, conquer and fill a void within our subconscious we may not even been previously aware is there. Reading, in essence completes us.
Meet author extraordinaire JF Goulding. Creative craftsman and conductor of The Shimmers Orchestra. Our spiritual guide beckons us to leave our inhibitions and skepticism behind and boldly embark upon an interdimensional odyssey that may very well forever change the way in which we look at paranormal and supernatural horror from this point forward.
From the beginning pages Goulding paints a vivid sensory landscape. Not only depicting description with mere sight and sound, the manipulation of scent and emotional hues breathes brand new life into the story telling process. Suffice to state, one does not merely read The Shimmers but attains the Shimmers experience.
The author does a fantastic execution of character building. Emotion in a kaleidoscope array is highlighted. Once we develop a sense of empathy for our lead protagonists, as an audience we’re rendered putty in Goulding’s hands.
In a sea of over saturated, done-to-death genre tales, The Shimmers presents very unique prowess and prose. While depicting the story from point of view of each parallel dimension the font appears on the pages to distinguish between each. The author has even gone on record as to state there lies a hidden message within, should the audience follow each of the bolded text throughout the novel.
While conflict of man versus the unknown perpetually escalates, Goulding unleashes a climax reminiscent of Hitchcock or Shyamalan influences. By far my favourite read of 2025 and may very well be within my top five most cherished reading experiences of all time. I will undoubtedly jump at the chance to encounter any future works by JF Goulding.