Physical illusions are phenomenal illusions which occur before light enters the eye, such as a mirage, a rainbow... Physiological illusions are the effects on the eyes or brain of prolonged stimulation of a specific type: brightness, tilt, color, movement... Visual cognitive illusions interact with different levels of perceptual processing, and inbuilt assumptions or ‘knowledge’ becomes misdirected. When we experience a visual cognitive illusion, the perceptual error remains compelling even when we are fully aware of its nature.
Now that's the definition of Optical Illusion- all about light, mind and eyes! A trick played over and over again, but unfortunately our brain fails to register it!
Will Wiles, an architecture as well as an author, has mastered his architectural skills to build his massive and grand chain of hospitality hotels in his new book, called The Way Inn. Also he managed to create a quite a deal of visual perception on his reader's minds via his protagonist, Neil Double.
Synopsis:
A man named Neil Double works as a conference surrogate, a.k.a, conference pirate (in a bad way!), whose job is to attend week long or weekend long conferences in some part of the world on behalf of someone else, and the perks are very good, since he gets to live his life in a chain of superior quality, grand hotels in various cities, and also he never runs out of patent totes and number of pamphlets and leaflets and customized pens and notepads! Most above all, Neil loves attending these conferences like an elite class business man! And he loves the part where he gets to stay in The Way Inn hotels.
This time on this visit, he stumbles upon a mysterious red-headed woman, who introduces herself as a marketing personnel working for the Way Inn chain of hotels. He intrigued her from the very first visit, like an illusion, she invaded his attention and focus.
This time he gets caught by the conference head and is banished from attending any further conferences in his life. He doesn't sit quietly and takes his paws upon that man!
But all this while, it seems to him, every single passing day or rather say in the dead of the night, the hotel is eventually revealing itself to Neil. But that's a mystery! And it's left for the readers to peel the layers of it!
I know, the concept sounds intriguing and very brilliant, but it didn't play out well with The Way Inn hotel's mystery and in the end, the story turned out to be a science-fiction one, instead of making us believe with the concept of illusion and kinesis and the story felt so unreal to me!
The book is divided into three parts- The Conference, The Hotel and The Inner Hotel.
Only Neil, Hilbert, the hotel manager and the red-headed woman are the key characters in the book, which don't leave any mark upon our minds!
Moreover the way the author unfolded Neil's obsession about the hotels and conferences is not that compelling, but frankly speaking, right after the first part, I found real interest on the book and by the end of the second part, I thoroughly got gripped, and by the end of the book, I felt, it's not that great anymore!
For more interest in illusion and kine-sis, please visit these sites:
Archimedes' Laboratory
Verdict: But still if you want to experience something new and explore the world of illusion, then The Way Inn is a perfect read for you.
Courtesy: Thanks to the author, Will Wiles, for providing me with a review copy, in return for an honest review.
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Author Info:
Will Wiles was born in India in 1978. He is deputy editor of Icon, a monthly architecture and design magazine, where for three years he has written about everything from Pot Noodles to jumbo jets. He once spent a week trying to find a Chihuahua skeleton. His debut novel, CARE OF WOODEN FLOORS, is a black comedy of death, destruction and interior decoration. He lives in London.
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