Despite the book's length, readers will race through the pages, drawn by the intricate plot and the proliferation of intriguing psychological puzzles, which will remind many of the work of Charles Palliser and Michael Cox. On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens - at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world - hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. Collins begins to wonder whether the object of their quest, if indeed the man exists, is merely a cover for his colleague's own murderous inclinations. Along with his real-life novelist friend Wilkie Collins, who narrates the tale, Dickens pursues the elusive Drood, an effort that leads the pair to a nightmarish world beneath London's streets. In the course of narrowly escaping death in an 1865 train wreck and trying to rescue fellow passengers, Dickens encounters a ghoulish figure named Drood, who had apparently been traveling in a coffin. Then along comes Dan Simmons and his new novel Drood, a big, hairy, smelly, loud, messy behemoth of a book, and suddenly, all that smallness, all that caution looks silly.
Taking quite a scenic route to the major conflicts (which I didn't mind too much), the novel focuses on sensationalist writer Wilkie Collins and novelist. , in this unsettling and complex thriller. Quite the ambitious project for Dan Simmons, his massive novel Drood blends scatterings of research and dark fantasy to give the book both a historical Victorian and Gothic, unearthly feel. ) brilliantly imagines a terrifying sequence of events as the inspiration for Dickens's last, uncompleted novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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