Gods of Aberdeen - Micah Nathan
by Zia ~ August 15th, 2005. Filed under: Books.
Orphan Eric Dunne escapes his foster family with a scholarship to the prestigious Aberdeen College. An academically precocious boy, he attracts the attention of Art Fitch, a brilliant but unstable research assistant for Dr. Cade, the college’s most distinguished professor. Art brings him into Cade’s circle, where they embark on serious scholarship for the professor–and also on Art’s obsession: searching for the Philosopher’s Stone. A cast of eccentric–and really quite creepy–characters sets the gothic tone of this novel. A bit overwrought, but not bad–though I have to say that framing the tale as a flashback does nothing for the story and further distances us from Eric’s already often unclear motivations.