What is this book that I'm thinking of?

December 8, 2016 1:05 PM

The one scene I remember involved a young man and woman running away from something (an opening portal). As they were running away they were holding hands and their hands starting to morph, meld, blend, combine, fuse into one hand. Everyone else and everything else was also morphing or changing in some way. Things were falling apart.

I believe I read this between the late 90's to the 2000's. I don't believe it was Neil Gaiman but that's the first thing that came to my head. My memory is that the book was very colorful (not the cover, but the story/writing). The author may have had 3 names as opposed to first name last name. Male, well known. Not sure if the genre is Science fiction or fantasy or adventure. When I google for anything with holding hands and other variations I get romance type stuff or the word "hand" in the title.

Aaaaand thats all I have. Help?

posted by mokeydraws to Writing & Language (7 answers total)

Could it be Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones?
posted by azalea_chant at 1:12 PM on December 8, 2016

Best answer: Weaveworld by Clive Barker?
posted by purplemonkie at 1:20 PM on December 8, 2016

Sounds like some of the world transitions in The Chronicles of Narnia. Maybe Voyage of the Dawn Treader or The Silver Chair?
posted by bunderful at 1:41 PM on December 8, 2016

Sounds like Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show to me.
posted by merocet at 3:13 PM on December 8, 2016

Simon R Green maybe? I can't think of a specific book with a scene like that but it sounds like the kind of thing he would write.
posted by antiwiggle at 3:15 PM on December 8, 2016

Response by poster: I think it's Weaveworld by Clive Barker! Wow I got nearly all of the details wrong and someone still figured it out.
posted by mokeydraws at 4:06 PM on December 8, 2016

"This Time of Darkness" by H.M. Hoover?
posted by james33 at 6:49 AM on December 9, 2016