What do You think about Blue Light (1999)?
Umm, still not sure what I really thought of this book. I liked the premise - a blue light bathes the Earth and those who see it start to change. Slowly they band together to work out what has happened to them and combat The Grey Man, a soul who died at the moment the light fell.Nothing really startling happened in the whole thing, neither is there any answers of grand conclusion at the end of it. It took me a while to get into it, especially as I kept getting confused about the different characters, but I did enjoy it while I was reading it. I don't think it is a book I will return to and doubt the ideas will stay with me for long, but it was a good read while it lasted.
—Dark-Draco
This was a really weird book. I really disliked the first two-thirds of it, but by the end I was sort of captivated. Until the very end, which was sort of like a cold bucket of water.I'm not sure that I can really explain the plot of this book. I'm not sure that I understand it. Basically, one day blue light comes down and infuses several people from earth--from San Francisco in the late 60s, to be more specific. The people whom the light has touched become sort of demigods, and they spread their word and recruit more followers through blood and sex. This rouses the interest of an evil being, known as "death" to the blue light people (or "Blues" as they are referred to in the book), and he comes to kill them in very horrific and gory detail. Many of them die, but those that are left flee and are called to a "safe zone" in the redwood forests of California, where they are led by a strange forestkeeper (sort of an archetypical "green man" figure) to help seed the world with "blue" trees. Here they live a peaceful, innocent existence, where they are among others like themselves and grapple with their true natures. Then the bad guy comes.The battle that ensues is not what disappointed me about the ending, and I won't spoil it by explaining what did. (If anyone has actually read this book and wants to discuss it, feel free to email me!) I liked the part of the book that took place in the forest; I found myself sucked into their carefree, primal and feral world. And I like the premise, though I can't exactly enunciate it--that humans are pods waiting to be seeded and sprout into evolution. But a lot of the book had a dark seedy feel to it, and it created a lot of unanswered questions.
—Lisa Litberg
A very engaging read. I almost put it down after the first chapter, it was almost too abstract to comprehend the initial setup, however, I was pulled into the story so that I finished this book voraciously. The ending left me somewhat disappointed, thinking, perhaps, a sequel is planned. With out going into the ending too much, I was left with a s feeling of ... incomplete. A note on the book's classification. "Blue Light" is marketed as science fiction, however, it is not science fiction per say, more along the lines of fantasy. I actually do hope there is a sequel in the works. I would love to continue the journey Walter Mosley started here.
—Shaka Jamal
