I enjoyed the writing and if there is ever a sequel I will certainly read it. I don't need a happy ending but some kind of ending would be good. But this truth does not necessarily make for good storytelling. But to introduce life forms (alien? we never find out) and a super-calamity (natural? alien-related? we never find out), characters on the verge of death as they attempt to escape (did he die? we will never know) with no hope of resolution in book 2? There is no sequel? In real life we do not always find answers to life's persistent questions,this is true. I think it is good when a book leaves you with a certain level of questioning: societal issues, psychological demons, who am I, why are we here. Therein lies the problem.Įven at the end none of my questions was answered.

I was asking questions all the way to the end. I dropped a couple stars here because I am rather disappointed. His most recently published or forthcoming work includes a novella entitled It Sustains for Earthling Publications, a Torchwood novel entitled Bay of the Dead, several Doctor Who audios for Big Finish Productions, a follow-up volume to Cinema Macabre entitled Cinema Futura and a new short story collection, Long Shadows, Nightmare Light.

His short stories, novellas, articles and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of anthologies and magazines, and he is editor of the highly-acclaimed Cinema Macabre, a book of fifty horror movie essays by genre luminaries, for which he won the 2007 British Fantasy Award. He has since published a further sixteen novels, among which are Stitch, The Immaculate, The Secret of Anatomy, Fiddleback, The Deluge and four books in the popular Doctor Who range. Mark Morris became a full-time writer in 1988 on the Enterprise Allowance Scheme, and a year later saw the release of his first novel, Toady. There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Stitch by Mark Morris