I first read this years ago and I was so in love with everything I read by Jonathan Carroll. I haven't read anything quite like him anywhere else. This is a sequel and it makes more sense if you've read that, although this doesn't feel like a sequel in the strictest sense.
Carroll has created a world using magical realism with characters I shouldn't like this much but really really do. I don't even know how to describe what's happening except in the general good vs evil sense, but everything stays rooted in the moment, with great description of day to day action, even though not all the characters are even alive.
The narrator is fantastic and engaging.

This was a very bazar book. Living in a world that is just made up of your memories. At some points this was hard to follow and some of the wall things happened. And there was also some touching moments that made you want to cray and be sad. Over all this was a good reas

this was a really odd and strange story, maybe I didn’t understand or maybe it wasnt for me… anyway I didn’t enjoy it, and I cant even say that at least I liked the narration, because it was ok, but not amazing…

I got to listen to the audiobook, and often I felt lost and going back on the start of the “chapter” to trying to understand what was going on… like I said before, maybe this book wasnt for me, for instance I like zombie stories and I know they arent based on reality but human connections are, and I don’t feel the reality here, and that puts me off… I couldn’t relate the characters or the story…

Thank you Netgalley and Brilliance Publishing | Brilliance Audio, for the free AAC and this is my honest opinion.

First, let me confess that I'm reviewing this for Netgalley as an Audiobook. Let me further admit that it's a toss-up whether I prefer reading over listening. His prose is akin to being told a strange tale by your favorite beloved 'black sheep' of an uncle. Carroll has brought me so much joy. He's quite an avuncular listening/reading experience!

I adore how he lulls me with these gritty descriptions of the mundane only to 'make the floor suddenly tilt.' Then I find myself in the 'Outside.' that invisible realm that minds wiser than mine have intuited. Carroll exceeds in what Iain Banks calls an 'Outside Context Problem.' Problems that cannot be measured or quantified by the instruments of science.

The 'metaphysics' on offer in these books is just so refreshing, so full of light especially when I compare his imaginal prose to what's being marketed by the tired religious monopolies. I wrote Carroll after a dark period in my life and he sent me a note to 'Just Follow the Light.' So do what he told me. Read his work, become a better person. Last thing, you can read this novel without reading White Apples but why deprive yourself of a singular spiritual experience?