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The Terrors of Wonder A tragicomedy about
leadership, identity, and truth.
318 pages. First Published on March 15, 2017 Synopsis: A prominent young child with disturbing visions must overcome an intimate enemy or be lost forever. One of the world’s most prominent heiresses is about to celebrate her 3rd birthday. A well-mannered and very precocious child, she is a delight to her parents and their entire household. Every year a party of historic proportions is thrown, this year the largest celebration yet. The party, now as before, is being held in the statistically safest country in the world. As many gather from around the globe, however, a series of curious crimes slowly begin to disrupt the regular tranquility. These crimes have been designed to–among other things–rob this girl of her inheritance, placing enough power to rattle the world into eager and willing hands. Yet, as a consequence of these crimes, someone else begins stalking the girl…someone with an even darker purpose.       Library of Congress Registration # TX 8-478-249 ISBN (Softcover): 978-0-9859964-4-4 ISBN (Hardcover): 978-0-9859964-8-2 ISBN (PDF Ebook): 978-1-947052-98-7 ISBN (EPUB Ebook):
978-1-947052-05-5
"Daniel
Strasel’s THE TERRORS OF WONDER is perhaps one
of the quirkiest books A mere
summary of the plot (someone is trying to
steal a young heiress’s inheritance) doesn’t
do justice to the book’s odd structure: it’s
made up of narrative, graphs, charts,
footnotes, and appendices. All of this
helps to lend the book a sense of
verisimilitude—we feel as though we’re reading
a collection of documents about an actual
event. Strasel calls the book a tragicomedy,
and it in fact is: there’s a great deal of
humor in the book, but it’s about rather a
serious topic. Much of the
writing is quite good, and the verve of the
book comes from its structural oddities. Strasel is
to be applauded for the innovation of his
work, and the sheer imaginative guts and
playfulness with which he’s infused his book.
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Judge, 25th Annual Writer’s
Digest Self-Published Book Awards 132 Footnotes |