Rushed by Brian Harmon
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A book based on a recurring nightmare of a happily married English teacher, called Eric Fortrell, is led into a totally different peculiar world of abnormal creatures and traps, through a terrifying journey, that try to prevent him, from reaching his goal, the ultimate secret in the Cathedral.
Eric sets off to find the reason behind his nightmare which drags him into a journey through a fissure in Wisconsin of USA, which is said to be the junction of the two worlds. This fissure is filled with strange odd looking animals that try to kill anything when encountered. Eric passes through all the hurdles that he faces in a barn, cornfields, church, factory, salvage yard, lake and the canyon before reaching his ultimate goal, the Cathedral, where he is destined to unveil the secret behind his call for the journey in his nightmare. His adventurous terrifying journey through the fissure is aided by the ghosts of his predecessors who reached the cathedral earlier to him and were the preservers of the secret of the same and also constantly guided by his dream at every point of doubt while searching for the correct route, to reach the cathedral. Eric physically survives the attacks of many strange creatures and also foils all the attempts of his enemy and the various hurdles created by him through scary creatures (golems) and who tries to snatch the secret in cathedral even before him.
Finally Eric reaches the practically undiscoverable cathedral which is nothing but a huge stadium sized crater hole formed over billions of years, the center of which deep down is the point of convergence of the two physical real worlds in a singularity (a kind of science related to dimensional compression physics) that housed, in the bottom center of the crater hole (the single point in space), a kind of wooden staff that imparts great wisdom about God and almost everything on this Earth, to the deserving person. God chooses a person, one at a time, to carry this knowledge further to generations, this time being Eric’s brain injected and flooded with awesome, terrible and powerful things that changed his life, forever. This knowledge is chosen to be remembered by only one person in the world, one at a time, while all others are allowed to forget. When he dies, this secret wisdom of God is carried forward to the next chosen person, through the same staff in the cathedral, who must pass through all the tests of nature. Eric becomes a kind of caretaker of this valuable and powerful knowledge, until he dies, and the next person takes over.

The book takes the reader through a nightmare, an adventure, a thriller, a horror and finally a moral that speaks about how a man needs to pursue his dream with a strong positive attitude and finally strive to reach his goal, despite, whatever difficulties he comes across in his journey to achieve success.

My rating is 3.75/5


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