The Frost Zone
Jason Frost
About a year ago when I first heard about One Night , the recurring theme coming from everyone was “ this is a different type of Eric Jerome Dickey book .” I had no idea what that meant or if that was a good or bad thing . So let me put your mind at ease by saying , “ this is a different type of Eric Jerome Dickey book .” There . Feel better ?
If you follow Eric on FaceBook , Twitter , or Instagram you know he ’ s a man who thirsts for knowledge . It shows in his pictures , his posts , his humor , his rants , and his writing . Just when you think he can ’ t surpass his previous works , he hits you with a book like this . There were one thousand and one things going through my head while reading One Night , but the one thought , the one thought I had when I closed this book was , “ this is fictional poetry .”
You read his books for the pleasure but you take away much more . He ’ s the best type of writer ( literary entertainer ) because he makes you experience the moment without you even knowing you ’ re in the moment . Until after . It ’ s like a cherry-vanilla aftertaste . Now … about One Night …
This story is a twelve-hour adrenaline rush of drama and passion set in a theater of eroticism and violence . Eric could teach a class in misdirection . And pain .
The man writes pain in One Night like Joshua Bell plays his violin . An elegantly complicated erotic tango of “ I don ’ t know ” between Jackie and the man from Orange County . And I think that might be the “ different ” people were talking about . Other EJD books have a cast of characters whom play off each other like the London Symphony . This go ‘ round there were really only two . But two in Eric ’ s hands are like one-hundred on someone else ’ s .
Pay close attention to the beginning of this story , if not you ’ ll miss something . Once it finally clicked with me it was like someone opened the Autobahn . This was also the first time in a long time where I felt that the story wasn ’ t really the focal point of the story . I know that doesn ’ t make complete