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3.26 AVERAGE
3.5 stars!
Hell's Heaven! I haven't been this torn about a book in a long while. UNBURY CAROL was brave in exploring new territory, (weird western, I'd call it), while at the same time it wallowed in repetition.
Carol has a rare condition which causes her to fall into a coma for days at the drop of a hat. To anyone unfamiliar with her disease, she appears to be dead. It's important for at least someone to know what's going on with her so that she doesn't get buried alive by mistake. However, Carol is reluctant to tell many people for fear of rejection, and in one case, the departure of her true love who just didn't want to deal with the responsibility. Will she ever find true love again? Will there ever be a cure for her malady? You'll have to read this book to find out.
I'm going to attempt to be honest here, while also attempting not to spoil anything. I feel obligated to mention the repetition of certain words and phrases. They had me rolling my eyes repeatedly. "Hell's Heaven" (!), is a phrase that nearly everyone uses to no end. It's this world's version of OMG, or Holy S**t, I guess. One overused word was "outlaw." (I get it. These are outlaws. We're in the west, they're wanted and/or BAD men.) Lastly "pig-shitt**s." Low down and dirty are the pig shitt**s. I get it. EVERYONE gets it. I'm speculating that the author used these words and phrases with the aim of world-building, and perhaps they helped to accomplish that...at first. After that, they just became so repetitious and irritating that it became kind of funny. (Or that could just be me, I'm told my sense of humor is off.)
Speaking of that world-building-I've read that the hardcover has a map of the Trail. (Everything that happens in this book happens along the Trail itself, or in the villages and towns located on the Trail.) That map is something I would like to see and I'd also like to read more about the Trail in the future. The villains in this book were interesting and a lot of fun, and they ALL had seemed to have some history that involved the Trail. In most cases, those people and the Trail's history were more interesting than the main characters-at least for me.
So, again, I am torn. I loved the creativity and imagination that went into Carol's disease and the building of this western world, while I was bothered by the repetition and what felt like an anti-climactic finale. Where does that leave us? At a 3.5/5 star rating. As always, your mileage may vary and I wold love to hear your thoughts on UNBURY CAROL when you're done!
*Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the e-ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review. This is it.*
Hell's Heaven! I haven't been this torn about a book in a long while. UNBURY CAROL was brave in exploring new territory, (weird western, I'd call it), while at the same time it wallowed in repetition.
Carol has a rare condition which causes her to fall into a coma for days at the drop of a hat. To anyone unfamiliar with her disease, she appears to be dead. It's important for at least someone to know what's going on with her so that she doesn't get buried alive by mistake. However, Carol is reluctant to tell many people for fear of rejection, and in one case, the departure of her true love who just didn't want to deal with the responsibility. Will she ever find true love again? Will there ever be a cure for her malady? You'll have to read this book to find out.
I'm going to attempt to be honest here, while also attempting not to spoil anything. I feel obligated to mention the repetition of certain words and phrases. They had me rolling my eyes repeatedly. "Hell's Heaven" (!), is a phrase that nearly everyone uses to no end. It's this world's version of OMG, or Holy S**t, I guess. One overused word was "outlaw." (I get it. These are outlaws. We're in the west, they're wanted and/or BAD men.) Lastly "pig-shitt**s." Low down and dirty are the pig shitt**s. I get it. EVERYONE gets it. I'm speculating that the author used these words and phrases with the aim of world-building, and perhaps they helped to accomplish that...at first. After that, they just became so repetitious and irritating that it became kind of funny. (Or that could just be me, I'm told my sense of humor is off.)
Speaking of that world-building-I've read that the hardcover has a map of the Trail. (Everything that happens in this book happens along the Trail itself, or in the villages and towns located on the Trail.) That map is something I would like to see and I'd also like to read more about the Trail in the future. The villains in this book were interesting and a lot of fun, and they ALL had seemed to have some history that involved the Trail. In most cases, those people and the Trail's history were more interesting than the main characters-at least for me.
So, again, I am torn. I loved the creativity and imagination that went into Carol's disease and the building of this western world, while I was bothered by the repetition and what felt like an anti-climactic finale. Where does that leave us? At a 3.5/5 star rating. As always, your mileage may vary and I wold love to hear your thoughts on UNBURY CAROL when you're done!
*Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the e-ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review. This is it.*
Fairy tale-meets-Western-meets-dark fantasy. There are ideas, characters, and themes in this twisted take on Sleeping Beauty that could have been wonderful; it just lacked a sense of cohesion, and the necessary oomph, to really drive home its potential.
Firstly, I will say that Malerman did a great job of evoking an authentic Western vibe, full of outlaws, drunkards, and tricksters, whilst adding enough unexpected elements to give the story its own unique flavour. It's just not a setting that does much for me, personally (but having loved Bird Box so much, I'm willing to give anything that Malerman writes a go). As he did in Bird Box, Malerman proves he has a penchant for sensory deprivation, and that he knows how to tap into our primal fears; in this case, being robbed of our ability to speak or move, and the horror of being buried alive.
I liked that, despite being in a coma for most of the story, we still have POV chapters from Carol's perspective. Women in fairy tales famously have their voices and their sense of control taken from them. Sometimes, as in this case, literally. Malerman shows us that those women still have minds of their own; Carol’s struggle for bodily autonomy as symbolic as it is physical. Without wanting to get spoilery, I also liked that, for all the time the book spends with the enigmatic hero desperate to save Carol, it is arguably two women and a gay man that serve as the greatest help and comfort to her, in various ways. This felt subtle, though very deliberate to me, and the notion that women don't necessarily need the dashing hero when they've got sisterhood on their side, pleased me very much.
Here's where things get a little more negative, sadly. I felt the pacing was way off. By page 300, the plot hasn't advanced beyond what we already know from the blurb. As such, there's just no need for the book to be as long as it is. In a similar vein, there's also a lot of build up towards an inevitable confrontation between two particular characters... and then it's all over in one brief chapter, with no sense of drama whatsoever. The anti-climax left me wondering what the whole point of their subplot was.
One of these aforementioned characters is Smoke; a cruel and villainous gun-for-hire. Smoke is a double amputee, and we're reminded of this constantly. In dialogue and in narration, he is invariably referred to as 'The Cripple'. Evil characters being disabled or disfigured is another common trope from classic tales, though it's now hugely outdated and harmful; the idea being that their inner corruption must be shown outwardly. As such, I was hopeful throughout that Malerman was going to develop Smoke in a surprising and nuanced way; adding depth, complexity, and pathos to his character, and thus subverting the trope. Whilst there was a small hint of this, it was never pushed far enough to justify the way the character was otherwise dealt with.
In fact, that is essentially my problem with Unbury Carol in a nutshell. It's a book full of good intentions, but underwhelming delivery. It tries to subvert the tropes of the damsel-in-distress, the gallant hero, the wicked witch, and the crippled villain, but doesn't stray far enough from conventional handling of said characters to do so successfully, ultimately falling back on a lot of the predictability that it tries to avoid.
Firstly, I will say that Malerman did a great job of evoking an authentic Western vibe, full of outlaws, drunkards, and tricksters, whilst adding enough unexpected elements to give the story its own unique flavour. It's just not a setting that does much for me, personally (but having loved Bird Box so much, I'm willing to give anything that Malerman writes a go). As he did in Bird Box, Malerman proves he has a penchant for sensory deprivation, and that he knows how to tap into our primal fears; in this case, being robbed of our ability to speak or move, and the horror of being buried alive.
I liked that, despite being in a coma for most of the story, we still have POV chapters from Carol's perspective. Women in fairy tales famously have their voices and their sense of control taken from them. Sometimes, as in this case, literally. Malerman shows us that those women still have minds of their own; Carol’s struggle for bodily autonomy as symbolic as it is physical. Without wanting to get spoilery, I also liked that, for all the time the book spends with the enigmatic hero desperate to save Carol, it is arguably two women and a gay man that serve as the greatest help and comfort to her, in various ways. This felt subtle, though very deliberate to me, and the notion that women don't necessarily need the dashing hero when they've got sisterhood on their side, pleased me very much.
Here's where things get a little more negative, sadly. I felt the pacing was way off. By page 300, the plot hasn't advanced beyond what we already know from the blurb. As such, there's just no need for the book to be as long as it is. In a similar vein, there's also a lot of build up towards an inevitable confrontation between two particular characters... and then it's all over in one brief chapter, with no sense of drama whatsoever. The anti-climax left me wondering what the whole point of their subplot was.
One of these aforementioned characters is Smoke; a cruel and villainous gun-for-hire. Smoke is a double amputee, and we're reminded of this constantly. In dialogue and in narration, he is invariably referred to as 'The Cripple'. Evil characters being disabled or disfigured is another common trope from classic tales, though it's now hugely outdated and harmful; the idea being that their inner corruption must be shown outwardly. As such, I was hopeful throughout that Malerman was going to develop Smoke in a surprising and nuanced way; adding depth, complexity, and pathos to his character, and thus subverting the trope. Whilst there was a small hint of this, it was never pushed far enough to justify the way the character was otherwise dealt with.
In fact, that is essentially my problem with Unbury Carol in a nutshell. It's a book full of good intentions, but underwhelming delivery. It tries to subvert the tropes of the damsel-in-distress, the gallant hero, the wicked witch, and the crippled villain, but doesn't stray far enough from conventional handling of said characters to do so successfully, ultimately falling back on a lot of the predictability that it tries to avoid.
No one likes to be one of the pioneering negative reviews for a book, especially when you're already invested in the author, so let me start out by saying: some readers are going to love this. [b:Unbury Carol|35274560|Unbury Carol|Josh Malerman|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1499891161s/35274560.jpg|56633566] is not a bad book by any means - it was just not the book for me.
I recently read and adored [b:Bird Box|18498558|Bird Box|Josh Malerman|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1383949470s/18498558.jpg|26186624], and even though the summary for [b:Unbury Carol|35274560|Unbury Carol|Josh Malerman|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1499891161s/35274560.jpg|56633566] seemed about as different from [b:Bird Box|18498558|Bird Box|Josh Malerman|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1383949470s/18498558.jpg|26186624] as anything could be, I had enough faith in Malerman's storytelling to confidently dive in. What I found was a very bizarre story, sort of a spaghetti western-horror-fantasy-fairytale hybrid.
Basically, Carol Evers has this condition where she goes into a coma for days at a time, and while she's unconscious, she appears dead - you have to wait for a full minute to feel a pulse. When she slips into a coma at the beginning of the novel, this time her husband Dwight is conniving to bury her alive and steal her fortune. When he gets wind of what's going on, a notorious outlaw - and Carol's ex-lover - James Moxie, has to ride the Trail to Carol's town, racing against time to save her.
Here's my main problem with [b:Unbury Carol|35274560|Unbury Carol|Josh Malerman|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1499891161s/35274560.jpg|56633566]: it relies on and perpetuates one of the most tired tropes of all time - the damsel in distress. That's essentially what Carol is for the duration of the book. Whether Malerman eventually subverts this trope by having Carol save herself (which is hinted at early on as a possibility), I can't say without getting into spoiler territory, but the fact is, rather than focusing on Carol herself, the majority of this novel is told from the point of view of male characters who have a vested interest in Carol's fate: her husband Dwight, her former lover James, and a criminal called Smoke who's hired to prevent James from reaching Carol in time. As an avid reader, it feels stale, and as a feminist, it feels insulting, to have Carol's story stripped from her and framed around so many male characters. To clarify - Carol does have POV chapters. I don't think everyone is going to agree with my assessment about her lack of agency - you could even argue that that's the point, to illustrate the injustice of male characters having to fight for Carol's sake. It just didn't quite sit right with me, especially from a male author. I think any good intentions Malerman may have had with this book got swallowed up by a sort of unwieldy execution.
The good news is that Malerman still has a great way with words, and I flew through this pretty quickly. I liked several of his characters, too, especially Carol's young and intelligent housekeeper, Farrah. Fans of westerns will probably be especially riveted by this story, which does well to evoke an old-timey western atmosphere, even though there are more fantastical elements than you'd traditionally expect. But the fact that I couldn't even make it through Westworld probably should have clued me in that this wasn't going to be for me.
Thank you to Del Rey and Josh Malerman for the ARC received in exchange for an honest review. [b:Unbury Carol|35274560|Unbury Carol|Josh Malerman|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1499891161s/35274560.jpg|56633566] will be published in April 2018.
I recently read and adored [b:Bird Box|18498558|Bird Box|Josh Malerman|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1383949470s/18498558.jpg|26186624], and even though the summary for [b:Unbury Carol|35274560|Unbury Carol|Josh Malerman|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1499891161s/35274560.jpg|56633566] seemed about as different from [b:Bird Box|18498558|Bird Box|Josh Malerman|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1383949470s/18498558.jpg|26186624] as anything could be, I had enough faith in Malerman's storytelling to confidently dive in. What I found was a very bizarre story, sort of a spaghetti western-horror-fantasy-fairytale hybrid.
Basically, Carol Evers has this condition where she goes into a coma for days at a time, and while she's unconscious, she appears dead - you have to wait for a full minute to feel a pulse. When she slips into a coma at the beginning of the novel, this time her husband Dwight is conniving to bury her alive and steal her fortune. When he gets wind of what's going on, a notorious outlaw - and Carol's ex-lover - James Moxie, has to ride the Trail to Carol's town, racing against time to save her.
Here's my main problem with [b:Unbury Carol|35274560|Unbury Carol|Josh Malerman|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1499891161s/35274560.jpg|56633566]: it relies on and perpetuates one of the most tired tropes of all time - the damsel in distress. That's essentially what Carol is for the duration of the book. Whether Malerman eventually subverts this trope by having Carol save herself (which is hinted at early on as a possibility), I can't say without getting into spoiler territory, but the fact is, rather than focusing on Carol herself, the majority of this novel is told from the point of view of male characters who have a vested interest in Carol's fate: her husband Dwight, her former lover James, and a criminal called Smoke who's hired to prevent James from reaching Carol in time. As an avid reader, it feels stale, and as a feminist, it feels insulting, to have Carol's story stripped from her and framed around so many male characters. To clarify - Carol does have POV chapters. I don't think everyone is going to agree with my assessment about her lack of agency - you could even argue that that's the point, to illustrate the injustice of male characters having to fight for Carol's sake. It just didn't quite sit right with me, especially from a male author. I think any good intentions Malerman may have had with this book got swallowed up by a sort of unwieldy execution.
The good news is that Malerman still has a great way with words, and I flew through this pretty quickly. I liked several of his characters, too, especially Carol's young and intelligent housekeeper, Farrah. Fans of westerns will probably be especially riveted by this story, which does well to evoke an old-timey western atmosphere, even though there are more fantastical elements than you'd traditionally expect. But the fact that I couldn't even make it through Westworld probably should have clued me in that this wasn't going to be for me.
Thank you to Del Rey and Josh Malerman for the ARC received in exchange for an honest review. [b:Unbury Carol|35274560|Unbury Carol|Josh Malerman|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1499891161s/35274560.jpg|56633566] will be published in April 2018.
This book is great. It’s a genre-bending original novel that I don’t know whether to classify as dark fantasy/ horror or western. The evil characters were particularly fun. It would make for a good, spooky camping companion.
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The premise of this book, Carol having a disorder that makes her fall into comes that.look like death, for days, is terrifying. She manages well throughout her life with the help of her mother, who also has this illness. When she marries Dwight and tells him her secret, her fate may be sealed. Dwight has married her for her money, and plots to get rid of her. Only an old beau, a masterful criminal from her early life, could save her. But will he make it there, with a murderer on his trail?
First of all, thank you to the publisher for an Advanced Reader’s Copy for all seven of the Night Worms review group in exchange for honest reviews. This book officially releases on April 10th.
This is the first book by Josh Malerman that I have read, so I had no expectations or knowledge going into this story. It is about a woman named Carol Evers who has this dark secret: she dies over and over. But they are not really deaths, per say. They are more like comas where she is fully conscious of what is happening and being said around her. While only two people know of her affliction, her greedy husband Dwight who plans to bury her (alive) asap nad her long lost love, James Moxie, we are instantly thrown into a world of action and deceit.
Malerman’s writing style is so good that it makes the story even faster to read and you don’t even realize how quickly you are turning the pages to find out what happens next. The chapters are broken up quite well (and they header/font for them is cool, too!!) and that further increases the speed at which you can unknowingly read this book.
While the story’s main character is presumably Carol Evers, I couldn’t help but be even more fascinated by her long lost love, outlaw James Moxie, and the crippled hitman, Smoke, who has been hired to stop him from coming back to town. Smoke is one nasty sunnabitch! He is definitely someone I would never want to cross paths with, that’s for sure.
Malerman has a good “slow burn” book here that definitely builds. We get a map of the area where the story takes place. One end of the map is where Moxie is traveling from and the other end of the map is where Carol Evers is in her comatose state. As the book kept going, I constantly referred to the map to see just how many towns were left between Moxie and Carol. As the book got closer to the end, he got closer to Carol. And it made me increasingly more anxious as he got closer. I kept waiting to see if he would have a showdown with Dwight, Carol’s husband. And I kept waiting to see if Smoke would catch up to him and where and when and what would happen!? Malerman did a wonderful job of keeping that suspense at a great level.
One of the biggest distractions to me in the book was the overuse of a couple of phrases. I really don’t even know how to put my finger on why it irked me so, but I know that every time I read it I would be so anxious of when I would come across the word/phrase again that it almost pulled me out of the story a few times. I will let all readers see if they can figure out the words/phrases that I am talking about without putting any sort of preconceived notions out there.
In the end, I am giving Unbury Carol 4 out of 5 stars. The world that Malerman creates is indescribable. Is it modern? Western? Dark fantasy? Horror lite (I use the word lite because I actually thought this was going to be a scary story, because I had no idea what it was about before cracking that spine)? It’s almost like this beautiful blend of all of the above. I do recommend this book and I am definitely looking forward to seeing what else Malerman has to offer and get my hands on a few of his already-published books!
This is the first book by Josh Malerman that I have read, so I had no expectations or knowledge going into this story. It is about a woman named Carol Evers who has this dark secret: she dies over and over. But they are not really deaths, per say. They are more like comas where she is fully conscious of what is happening and being said around her. While only two people know of her affliction, her greedy husband Dwight who plans to bury her (alive) asap nad her long lost love, James Moxie, we are instantly thrown into a world of action and deceit.
Malerman’s writing style is so good that it makes the story even faster to read and you don’t even realize how quickly you are turning the pages to find out what happens next. The chapters are broken up quite well (and they header/font for them is cool, too!!) and that further increases the speed at which you can unknowingly read this book.
While the story’s main character is presumably Carol Evers, I couldn’t help but be even more fascinated by her long lost love, outlaw James Moxie, and the crippled hitman, Smoke, who has been hired to stop him from coming back to town. Smoke is one nasty sunnabitch! He is definitely someone I would never want to cross paths with, that’s for sure.
Malerman has a good “slow burn” book here that definitely builds. We get a map of the area where the story takes place. One end of the map is where Moxie is traveling from and the other end of the map is where Carol Evers is in her comatose state. As the book kept going, I constantly referred to the map to see just how many towns were left between Moxie and Carol. As the book got closer to the end, he got closer to Carol. And it made me increasingly more anxious as he got closer. I kept waiting to see if he would have a showdown with Dwight, Carol’s husband. And I kept waiting to see if Smoke would catch up to him and where and when and what would happen!? Malerman did a wonderful job of keeping that suspense at a great level.
One of the biggest distractions to me in the book was the overuse of a couple of phrases. I really don’t even know how to put my finger on why it irked me so, but I know that every time I read it I would be so anxious of when I would come across the word/phrase again that it almost pulled me out of the story a few times. I will let all readers see if they can figure out the words/phrases that I am talking about without putting any sort of preconceived notions out there.
In the end, I am giving Unbury Carol 4 out of 5 stars. The world that Malerman creates is indescribable. Is it modern? Western? Dark fantasy? Horror lite (I use the word lite because I actually thought this was going to be a scary story, because I had no idea what it was about before cracking that spine)? It’s almost like this beautiful blend of all of the above. I do recommend this book and I am definitely looking forward to seeing what else Malerman has to offer and get my hands on a few of his already-published books!
"Fear was no stranger to Howltown, no traveler from the Trail, but the fear she felt now was shattering."
I read Unbury Carol as the second book for the Night Worms review team. This was a rollercoaster for me - I really enjoyed some parts, and struggled with others. I want to say up front that I am not particularly fond of books with a lot of traveling, so keep that in mind when reading my review.
I think I would classify this as a paranormal western. Don't go into this expecting a horror novel. I was expecting some creepiness, and I may have set myself up for disappointment with that.
This book is a slow burn. There's a lot of planning/plotting & waiting. I thought there would be more happening in Carol's coma world, but she was just stuck in there, and that was it. There are a lot of words, and not a ton of action, and the lovers of slow burns are going to appreciate that. For me, this book was very long for the story that was being told, and I felt like I was waiting for something throughout most of the book.
It seemed like this book was going to focus on Carol, but she is more of a secondary character to the men in her life. At some points, she seems to be relegated to the status of an object because of the absolute lack of control over her own life (the sickness part is not her fault). Men move her around, men want to save her, men try to figure out what other men are up to regarding her situation. The women in the novel are either dead, appear to be dead, or are drinking & crying. I had hoped for more in this area.
In all honesty, I think I would have felt differently about this book if it was more focused on Carol & her mother Hattie's relationship instead of Carol's relationships to the men around her. Hattie's actions do play a large role in the way Carol's life plays out, but only has a minor storyline. I found her to be far more interesting than some of the characters who received more attention.
As you may have seen in other reviews, "hell's heaven" and "pig-shit" are used quite frequently throughout the book. I appreciate the effort to create a western vernacular in the story, but these two phrases were overused to the point of distraction. I wish they would have been broken up with some other phrases.
I liked the resolution of the story, and I thought it was a creative way to tie up the ending. I was always uncertain about how it was going to end, and that curiosity held me throughout the whole book. I thought it was a fun way to handle solving everything.
Bird Box is the only other Josh Malerman book I've read, and he has versatility and creativity as a writer. Bird Box & Unbury Carol are incredibly different stories, and I admire the range of his imagination. I have Black Mad Wheel on my shelf, and hope to read it soon. I will continue to pick up whatever he writes next. Also, I want to say that whoever does the cover designs for his books is amazing. They are always stunning.
Thank you so much to Del Rey for sending early copies to the Night Worms. Unbury Carol will be out on 4/10!
I read Unbury Carol as the second book for the Night Worms review team. This was a rollercoaster for me - I really enjoyed some parts, and struggled with others. I want to say up front that I am not particularly fond of books with a lot of traveling, so keep that in mind when reading my review.
I think I would classify this as a paranormal western. Don't go into this expecting a horror novel. I was expecting some creepiness, and I may have set myself up for disappointment with that.
This book is a slow burn. There's a lot of planning/plotting & waiting. I thought there would be more happening in Carol's coma world, but she was just stuck in there, and that was it. There are a lot of words, and not a ton of action, and the lovers of slow burns are going to appreciate that. For me, this book was very long for the story that was being told, and I felt like I was waiting for something throughout most of the book.
It seemed like this book was going to focus on Carol, but she is more of a secondary character to the men in her life. At some points, she seems to be relegated to the status of an object because of the absolute lack of control over her own life (the sickness part is not her fault). Men move her around, men want to save her, men try to figure out what other men are up to regarding her situation. The women in the novel are either dead, appear to be dead, or are drinking & crying. I had hoped for more in this area.
In all honesty, I think I would have felt differently about this book if it was more focused on Carol & her mother Hattie's relationship instead of Carol's relationships to the men around her. Hattie's actions do play a large role in the way Carol's life plays out, but only has a minor storyline. I found her to be far more interesting than some of the characters who received more attention.
As you may have seen in other reviews, "hell's heaven" and "pig-shit" are used quite frequently throughout the book. I appreciate the effort to create a western vernacular in the story, but these two phrases were overused to the point of distraction. I wish they would have been broken up with some other phrases.
I liked the resolution of the story, and I thought it was a creative way to tie up the ending. I was always uncertain about how it was going to end, and that curiosity held me throughout the whole book. I thought it was a fun way to handle solving everything.
Bird Box is the only other Josh Malerman book I've read, and he has versatility and creativity as a writer. Bird Box & Unbury Carol are incredibly different stories, and I admire the range of his imagination. I have Black Mad Wheel on my shelf, and hope to read it soon. I will continue to pick up whatever he writes next. Also, I want to say that whoever does the cover designs for his books is amazing. They are always stunning.
Thank you so much to Del Rey for sending early copies to the Night Worms. Unbury Carol will be out on 4/10!
I wanted to love this so bad.....
But honestly it felt like chore to finish from pretty early on.
It did pick up a bit at the end, but yeah.
Just Meh.
But honestly it felt like chore to finish from pretty early on.
It did pick up a bit at the end, but yeah.
Just Meh.