The Gaia Chime is a horror thriller novel, written by Johnny Worthen, and published by Flame Tree Press. A story that combines highly impactful passages with slower ones that allow the reader to think about the previous moments, in a novel that resonates with current events and issues.

We will be following Charlotte and Seth, who funded by Robert Weller, are creating a tennis documentary about his son, Bobby; however, what they didn't expect is to film how Bobby kills his father in the middle of the match. An assassination that marks the start of a much more sinister movement, which will be depicted by our main characters as they investigate the wave of assassinations and chaos that follows this moment, in a mimic of rebelling against a dying world and the generation gap.

Charlotte and Seth are two exceptionally well-fleshed characters, both different in background, but who act as the flawed spectators in this bloodbath of a book. They are excellent leads to chase while we slowly unveil the reason behind this sudden mystery; a plot that also invites the reader to deeply thought about it.

The novel is greatly paced, alternating more frenetic scenes with introspective ones, balancing and allowing the reader to catch a breath in the meantime. The prose is great, a bit more elaborate than it is normal in the genre, but it fits with the philosophical nature of the plot.

The Gaia Chime is a sharp and smart horror thriller, an ambitious story that plays well with its strengths; if you look for greatly written thrillers that are also thought provoking, Johnny Worten's work should be in your list.