In their debut short story, Rue Sparks brings to life a modern day fable on mortality, bravery, and acceptance.Keenan loves his job at Daylight Chasers. With the help of proprietary technology that allows him and his partner Billy to jump time zones, he has the opportunity to guide his clients through a day that nearly never ends.He can be charming, snarky, earnest, flirty, whatever he needs to … whatever he needs to be to put his client at ease. He can be anyone, but who he really is—a soft-spoken introvert with a need to control his surroundings.
Problem is his current client, Isabella Marquez, doesn’t seem to know what she needs. An enigma that runs hot and cold, Keenan quickly discovers that scripts and calculated acting aren’t going to help him this time. When the planned activities all start going south, Keenan wonders what is it about Isabella that tilts the world off its axis? What is it that everyone but him seems to know about the client he’s meant to guide?
Daylight Chasers is the first issue of the Sparks Zine, releasing quarterly starting in January 2020.
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Daylight Chasers is a beautiful novella that explores the almost impossible with a fantastical air of wonder and new beginnings. The captured mood makes me think of Paolo Coehlo, and the imagery is so vivid at times I could practically see the movie adaptation playing out before me. Thoughtful, charming, and wonderfully written, Daylight Chasers is an exciting insight into the style of its author and I cant wait to read more from them.
I frankly have no words for the story.
It is original and fresh and beautiful.
Keenan documents through Isabelle’s journey and the way the author captures Isabelle’s grief was beautiful. The way Isabelle is on her journey is very well brought out.
Excellent book.
At first I thought I wasn’t going to like this but I was wrong. Daylight Chasers is a company that gives you a day that you won’t want to end. Isabella is chosen. As she starts her journey she seems to be so sad. As they progress her mood brightens which makes her host happy. She sends messages to family or friends via pigeons, Rides a Bison and swims with Great Whites. All the time getting exactly what she needs to put her life back together. The narrator did a great job filling the story with emotion to tear at your heart strings. A great short story.
This story was superb in execution and emotion. Similar to Black Mirror, with Ray Bradbury vibes, DAYLIGHT CHASERS by Rue Sparks is a speculative-fiction tale about a company that offers a day that “nearly” never ends.
In a trek across time zones, this novella brims with adventure, travel, and luscious imagery. Sparks is a magnificent storyteller, and their work pulls at all the heartstrings. With powerful prose, they detail struggles with anxiety and grief to illustrate a healing journey about overcoming and accepting trauma, about living in the moment, and about redefining oneself after a soul-crippling loss.
There are many quotable gems in this work, but my favorite is the following:
“Beautiful things can also be terrible.”
Daylight Chasers was an emotional ride.
This book deals with the aftereffects of loss and what one must and should properly do afterwords.
Hands-down the best parts of the book were the two poems at the beginning and end of the book. They were so deep and thoughtful and ignited a feeling inside of me that I cannot describe.
Overall, this book was well written and very well done. I was a little confused at the beginning of the book. It was a little stretching on the imagination but after the first few pages, the book sucked me in and kept me reading the whole way through. A nice thing is it is short so you can easily binge this book in a day.
This book does deal head-on with the effects of loss so just keep that in mind when you are reading this book.
I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
The book was good, though I feel like I missed something to explain exactly what was going on. There’s a fantasy element at play. The narrator learns something, the character being helped aims for something that is necessary but not easy. There is some adult language in the book. I got a free copy of the book after interviewing the author. I’d suggest it to fans of the movie “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” This isn’t the sort of fantasy book I usually read. I read the whole book to try to figure out what was going on and how they were moving in various time zones and seeing fantasy-ish creatures. I don’t think I figured it out. It had a strong ending that wasn’t especially happy or sad, but dramatic and worthwhile. There was action, inspiration, and it was original.