Ловушка для Мыслеформы. A Trap for a Thought-Form. Премия им. М. Булгакова / M. Bulgakov Award (Билингва: Rus/Eng) - страница 16

The final scene on the bridge of Eternity with the possibility of choosing the future is associated with a fork in the road, «If you go to the left, you will lose your horse; if you go to the right, you will lose your life; if you go straight, you will be alive and forget yourself.»

However, the scary fairy tale is actually non-scary – no matter how much I tried to get frightened in the course of the story, I couldn’t! And not just because the book is in the «Playing (!) Another Reality» series. The very flow of the narrative screamed with every letter in every line: everything is going to be okay!

There is also a smell of Cinderella: dresses, the anticipation of a miracle at the Ball, etc. However, Alice is in search not so much of a prince as of answers to everybody’s basic questions.

And yet, «A Trap for a Thought-Form» is closer to «Alice in Wonderland» by L. Carroll. Alice and the Cheshire Cat, also speaking and fabulous, like Bulgakov’s Cat, wise in his madness and uttering, «Life is serious. But not much…»

If to be very serious, the «Trap», the winner of the competitions «Master» after M. Bulgakov (the Moscow City Organization of the Union of Writers of Russia, 2020) and «The Looking Glass» after L. Carroll (Open Literary Club, 2022), is hunting for those who lack magic in their lives. It is light, kind, fabulous. Written by the Master of the Word. It’s so nice to spend time with this book over a cup of tea, wrapped in a cozy blanket and smiling at the Cat, that always smiles you back!

Tatyana Trubnikova,

member of the Union of Writers of Russia,

laureate of literary awards

The magazine «ZINZIVER» No.1 (127), 2022

Magazines’ Hall «Gorky media»

https://magazines.gorky.media/zin/2022/1/vzglyad-2.html

https://reading-hall.ru/publication.php?id=30244

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