The End Of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas, is a fiction novel that explores the existence of a fourth realm. It is a very addicting book, and a great read. Although it is classified as fiction, the book has characteristics of science-fiction and mystery and suspense.

The book has everything from collapsing buildings, disappearing college professors, and cursed books, to bits of romance, and adventure with rogue CIA agents.

College student Ariel Manto stumbles across this book which she has heard about at alecture by a college professor, who soon takes her under his wing. The interesting twist with this book is the fact that the book that Manto finds is called The End of Mr. Y, and it is supposedly cursed.

She finds out that the book was originally published in 1893, and Thomas E. Lumas, the author, died the day it was published. Soon after the publisher and the editor died, leaving everyone involved with the book either missing or dead.

The supposed curse on the book does not turn Manto away from the book, it actually intrigues her even more.

Although Manto is not a science major, she is very interested in the scientifictheories, and when she writes, a theory is usually involved. Lumas was a man who wroteon works of science and even argued the points of Darwin, which were widely accepted.

Manto begins to read the book and soon discovers that she believes that it would be possible for the author to slip into the Troposphere. “The troposphere is a mysterious place in which all minds are connected and it is possible to surf anyone’s thoughts.”

Because she begins to believe that she has slipped into the troposphere she becomescompletely enraptured in the book, and begins to get paranoid that people are after her.

Throughout the course of the book the reader follows Manto in a matrix-typeexperience, and from time to time, the story changes from her point of view, to anoutsiders, mostly while she is in the troposphere.

Although Ariel could be in danger while getting involved with the book and theother realm, she sees it more as a literary place, and is determined to figure out where her professor has disappeared to, and why and how this book has to do with it.

Following the story can be confusing at times because it skips between the presenttime when she is reading the book, and the time that she is in the troposphere. Included inthe text are various flashbacks from the time that she met her mentor to the time that shegets involved with the book.

Overall the book was very enjoyable and had bits of all different genres. It wascaptivating to the point where the reader will not want to put the book down, and it will have you guessing how it ends from very early on.