The Delusion by Laura Gallier

"Is there more to this life than meets the eye? In the young adult paranormal fiction The Delusion, author Laura Gallier takes readers on a thrilling, suspense-filled journey where the supernatural unseen world becomes visible. The eerie storyline entertains from start to finish and transcends mere fiction as readers must decide for themselves: Do unseen forces of good and evil actually exist?

When Owen Edmonds begins experiencing horrifying hallucinations, he struggles to keep it together while frantically searching for a cure. His mission to reclaim his sanity takes a devastating turn for the worse, however, when his delusions become even more shocking and sinister.

Owen's relentless quest for logical answers leads him to a mind-bending conclusion — he's not merely imagining forces of evil at work; everyone else is blind to the evil that is.

He has to warn others to find a way to rescue them despite their disbelief.

Experience life through Owen Edmonds' eyes and decide for yourself: Is he deceived, or are we?"

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The Delusion was an absolutely fantastic read. It follows the story of Owen, a high school student who wakes up one day, after drinking an unknown substance, and sees things. Chains around people's neck hanging down their back and cords protruding out of their head. Owen can't get anyone to believe him, not his mom, not his best friend and he's not even sure if he believes himself. That is until he spots Ray Anne chain free and she believes him. Together they try to figure out what is going on. 

What an interesting concept. The chains that are wrapped around the neck have names associated with them and from what I can understand, what I believe these are meant to represent unresolved problems that the chained person has with the name on their chain. The cords protruding from the head held words like bitter, hopeless, misery, all things that can describe how person would feel. It's actually really deep when you started to think about it. Here are these chains, unresolved issues and cords, feelings, dragging you down. As you progress through the book it gets a little bit religious, not overly so and the message could be applied to anyone, religious or not. What I took away from the book not only that it was a fantastic SciFi / Paranormal read but that in order to live you need to free yourself from these chains and cords basically freeing yourself from the negative feelings about yourself, negative emotions and forgiving people so that these things don't drag you down or hold you back.

I'd recommend anyone who enjoys sci-fi, paranormal and/or spiritual type books to give this one a try. 


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